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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...
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  • Medal of Organic Chemistry (MSD Life Science Foundation) 2019 – Vincent du Vigneaud Award (American Peptide Society) 2020 – Humboldt Prize (Humboldt...
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    was determined in 1952. In the early 1950s, American biochemist Vincent du Vigneaud found that oxytocin is made up of nine amino acids, and he identified...
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    DuMont is the host of the political radio talk show Beyond the Beltway. He also founded the Museum of Broadcast Communications. Vincent du Vigneaud was...
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  • Medicine, 2019 Hamilton O. Smith – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1978 Vincent du Vigneaud – Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1955 George Hoyt Whipple – Nobel Prize...
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    Richard Synge 1953: Hermann Staudinger 1954: Linus Pauling 1955: Vincent du Vigneaud 1956: Cyril Hinshelwood / Nikolay Semyonov 1957: Alexander Todd 1958:...
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    During World War II Holley spent two years working under Professor Vincent du Vigneaud at Cornell University Medical College, where he was involved in the...
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  • Medicine, 1956 André F. Cournand, France, Physiology or Medicine, 1956 Vincent du Vigneaud, Chemistry, 1955 Willis E. Lamb, Physics, 1955 Polykarp Kusch, born...
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    High Commissioner for Refugees 1955 Willis Lamb; Polykarp Kusch Vincent du Vigneaud Hugo Theorell Halldór Laxness None 1956 John Bardeen; Walter Houser...
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    Constitution law scholar and Attorney for the President; faculty member Vincent du Vigneaud, Biochemist and Nobel Prize winner; Faculty Member Dana Perino, White...
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  • Hormone) 1906 Oxytocin Discovered by Henry Hallett Dale, synthesized by Vincent du Vigneaud in 1952 1925 1926 N/A (Natural Hormone) 1907 Arsphenamine Alfred...
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    studying the electrical excitability of muscles and neurons. In 1843 Emil du Bois-Reymond demonstrated the electrical nature of the nerve signal, whose...
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    Vasopressin was elucidated and synthesized for the first time by Vincent du Vigneaud. Evidence for an effect of AVP on monogamy vs polygamy comes from...
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  • Medical School for a two-year postdoctorate in the laboratory of Vincent du Vigneaud from 1946 to 1948. Having worked at UTA since 1948, the Lester J...
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    and 1954 which culminated in a Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1955), Vincent du Vigneaud isolated, sequenced, and synthesized oxytocin and vasopressin. Today...
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  • metabolism and peptide metabolism in E. coli. Following training with Vincent du Vigneaud at Cornell University, she spent most of her career at Yale University...
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  • advisor on nutrition. Murdered in France, with his wife and daughter. Vincent du Vigneaud (1901–1978). American biochemist known for work on oxytocin. Nobel...
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    to the elucidation of the structure of complex substances" 1955 Vincent du Vigneaud (1901–1978)  United States "for his work on biochemically important...
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    laureates have been affiliated with SMHS, including Ferid Murad, Vincent du Vigneaud, and Julius Axelrod. The school maintains numerous research centers...
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  • (d. 1973) 1901 – Henri Sauguet, French composer (d. 1989) 1901 – Vincent du Vigneaud, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1978)...
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    for an armor-piercing shell. In October 1948, Pauling, along with Lee A. DuBridge, William A. Fowler, Max Mason, and Bruce H. Sage, was awarded a Presidential...
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    1877) Physics – Willis Eugene Lamb and Polykarp Kusch Chemistry – Vincent du Vigneaud Physiology or Medicine – Axel Hugo Theodor Theorell Literature –...
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    archaeology, geology, geophysics, and other branches of science" 1955 Vincent du Vigneaud Chicago, Illinois, USA "for his work on biochemically important sulphur...
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  • to obtain a position as a research associate in the laboratory of Vincent du Vigneaud at Washington University in St. Louis. There Cohn conducted post-doctoral...
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  • School of Medicine William Vickrey Economics 1996 Columbia University Vincent du Vigneaud Chemistry 1955 Cornell University Artturi Ilmari Virtanen Chemistry...
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  • pharmacist and chemist, Discovered the elements beryllium and chromium Vincent du Vigneaud (1901–1978), 1955 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Artturi Ilmari Virtanen...
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    exchange programmes with Carnegie Mellon University, Emory University, Ecole du Louvre, EPFL, ETH Zurich, ESSEC Business School, ENS Paris, HEC Paris, Humboldt...
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  • adenine dinucleotide (FAD), Nobel laureates in Chemistry in 1957 Vincent du Vigneaud, first synthesizer of Oxytocin and Vasopressin, Nobel laureates in...
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    Wood, American filmmaker, actor and author (b. 1924) December 11 – Vincent du Vigneaud, American biochemist (b. 1901) December 12 – Fay Compton, English...
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  • 1949 André Cournand William S. Tillett L. Royal Christensen 1948 Vincent du Vigneaud Selman Waksman René J. Dubos 1947 Oswald T. Avery Homer Smith 1946...
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