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Vincent du Vigneaud

Scientist · born May 18, 1901 · died 1978

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Vincent du Vigneaud was an American biochemist. He was recipient of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his work on biochemically important sulphur compounds, especially for the first synthesis of a polypeptide hormone," a reference to his work on the peptide hormone oxytocin.

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  1. ~47Received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research1948
  2. ~54Received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry1955

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