biography
| name: |
Du Vigneaud, Vincent
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pronunciation:
[doo veenyoh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1901–78)
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| biography:
| Biochemist, born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He studied at Illinois, Rochester, Johns Hopkins, and Edinburgh universities, and became professor of biochemistry at Cornell (1938). He researched sulphur-containing vitamins, isolated Vitamin H, and deduced the structure of biotin (1942), before turning his attention to the pituitary hormones, oxytocin and vasopressin. He determined their structure, and in 1953 succeeded in synthesizing oxytocin, for which he was awarded the 1955 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. |
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