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  • Vincent du Vigneaud
  • Vincent du Vigneaud (May 18, 1901 - December 11, 1978) was a U.S. biochemist. He won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1955 for the isolation, structural identification, and total synthesis of the cyclic peptide, oxytocin.

    He began studying chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was influenced by lectures of Carl Shipp Marvel. After receiving his M.S. in 1924 he joined DuPont.
    Restarting his academic career in 1925, he joined the group of John R. Murlin at the University of Rochester for his Ph.D thesis. He was graduated in 1927 with his work, The Sulfur in Insulin.
    He joined Alpha Chi Sigma while at the University of Illinois in 1930.
    He next went to George Washington University Medical School in Washington, D.C. in 1932 and to Cornell Medical College in New York City in 1938, where he stayed until his emeritation in 1967. Following that retirement, he held a position at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
    In 1974 he suffered from a stroke which ended his academic career. One year after his wife's death in 1977, he died.

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