Vincent du Vigneaud - Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1955
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Vincent du Vigneaud

Prize
Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1955
for his work on biochemically important sulphur compounds, especially for the first synthesis of a polypeptide hormone
Citizenship
United States United States
Languages
English
date of birth
5/18/1901
place of birth
Chicago
date of death
12/11/1978
place of death
White Plains
Lived
77 years
member of
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1944
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Royal Society of Edinburgh
  • National Academy of Sciences
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
employer
  • University of Edinburgh
  • George Washington University
  • Kaiser Wilhelm Society
  • Washington University in St. Louis
  • Cornell University
doctoral student
  • Sofia Simmonds
educated at
  • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • Carl Schurz High School
field of work
  • biochemistry
occupation
  • chemist
  • university teacher
  • biochemist
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