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Vincent du Vigneaud (May 18, 1901 – December 11, 1978) 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," [1] a reference to his work on the peptide hormone oxytocin.
Vincent du Vigneaud was an American biochemist and winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1955 for the isolation and synthesis of two pituitary hormones: vasopressin, which acts on the muscles of the blood vessels to cause elevation of blood pressure; and oxytocin, the principal agent causing.
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Vincent du Vigneaud The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1955 . Born: 18 May 1901, Chicago, IL, USA . Died: 11 December 1978, White Plains, NY, USA . Affiliation at the time of the award: Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Du Vigneaud is best known for determining the structures of and synthesizing oxytocin and vasopressin, for which he received the 1955 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Oxytocin is a cyclic octapeptide containing a disulfide bond.
VINCENT DU VIGNEAUD, Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry at Cornell University Medical College in New York City and, since 1967, Professor of Chemistry at Cornell University in Ithaca,...
- Miklos Bodanszky
- 1979
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1955 was awarded to Vincent du Vigneaud "for his work on biochemically important sulphur compounds, especially for the first synthesis of a polypeptide hormone"
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Dr. Vincent du Vigneaud, Chair of the Department of Biochemistry, receives the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research on the pituitary gland hormone oxytocin, which is crucial for childbirth and producing milk.
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