Vincent du Vigneaud

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Vincent du Vigneaud
BornMay 18, 1901
Chicago USA
DiedDecember 11 1978 (aged 77)
Ithaca, New York, USA
InstitutionsCornell University
Alma materUniversity of Rochester
Academic advisor  John R. Murlin
Notable prizesImage:Nobel prize medal.svg Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1955)
Vincent du Vigneaud (May 18, 1901 – December 11, 1978) was an American biochemist. He won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1955. For the isolation, structural identification and total synthesis of the cyclic peptide oxytocin.[1]

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He married Zella Zon Ford June 12 1924. He joined Alpha Chi Sigma while at the University of Illinois in 1930. In 1974 he suffered from a stroke which ended his academic career. One year after his wife's death, he passed away.

His career was characterized by an interest in sulfur, proteins, and, espicially, peptides. Even before his famous work on elucidating and synthesizing oxytocin and vasopressin, he had established a reputation for work on insulin, biotin, transmethylation, and penicillin.[2] He also began a series of structure-activity relationships for oxytocin and vasopressin, perhaps the first for peptides.

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Du Vigneaud V, Ressler C, Swan JM, RobertsCWand Katsoyannis PG (1954). "Oxytocin: synthesis". Journal of the American Chemical Society 76: 3115–3118. doi:10.1021/ja01641a004.
  2. ^ Ragnarsson U. L. F. (2007). "The Nobel trail of Vincent du Vigneaud". Journal of Peptide Science 13 (7): 431 - 433. doi:10.1002/psc.864.
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Nobel Laureates in Chemistry

Edwin McMillan / Glenn T. Seaborg (1951) • Archer Martin / Richard Synge (1952) • Hermann Staudinger (1953) • Linus Pauling (1954) • Vincent du Vigneaud (1955) • Cyril Hinshelwood / Nikolay Semyonov (1956) • Alexander Todd (1957) • Frederick Sanger (1958) • Jaroslav Heyrovský (1959) • Willard Libby (1960) • Melvin Calvin (1961) • Max Perutz / John Kendrew (1962) • Karl Ziegler / Giulio Natta (1963) • Dorothy Hodgkin (1964) • Robert Woodward (1965) • Robert S. Mulliken (1966) • Manfred Eigen / Norrish / George Porter (1967) • Lars Onsager (1968) • Derek Barton / Odd Hassel (1969) • Luis Federico Leloir (1970) • Gerhard Herzberg (1971) • Christian B. Anfinsen / Stanford Moore / William Stein (1972) • E.O.Fischer / Geoffrey Wilkinson (1973) • Paul Flory (1974) • John Cornforth / Vladimir Prelog (1975)

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