What is Vincent du Vigneaud?
[[File:Dr. Vincent du Vigneaud.jpg|right|210px|thumb|Vincent du Vigneaud]] '''Vincent du Vigneaud''' (May 18, 1901 – December 11, 1978) was an American [[biochemist]]. He won a [[Nobel Prize]] in [[Chemistry]] in 1955 for his work on [[oxytocin]].<ref>{{cite journal | title=Oxytocin: synthesis |vauthors=Du Vigneaud V, Ressler C, Swan JM, RobertsCWand Katsoyannis PG | journal=Journal of the American Chemical Society | volume=76 | issue= 12| pages=3115–3118 | year=1954 | doi=10.1021/ja01641a004}}</ref><ref>[http://nobelprize.org/chemistry/laureates/1955/vigneaud-bio.html The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1955, Vincent du Vigneaud]. Retrieved 18 October 2016.</ref> Du Vigneaud was born in [[Chicago, Illinois]]. He studied chemistry at the [[University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign]] and then worked for the chemical company [[DuPont]] for one year. He then went back to university to study for his [[Ph.D.|Ph.D degree]]. He received his Ph.D in 1927. He taught for one year at the medical school of [[Johns Hopkins University]] and then went to Europe. He did research in [[Dresden]] in Germany and at the medical school of the [[University of Edinburgh]] in Scotland. When he went back to America, he became a professor at the University of Illinois. In 1932 he moved to the [[George Washington University]] Medical School. In 1938 he moved to [[Cornell University]] Medical College in New York City. He was a professor at Cornell until he retired in 1967.<ref>{{cite web|last=Hofmann|first=Klaus|title=Vincent du Vigneaud|url=http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/du-vigneaud-vincent.pdf|publisher=National Academy of Sciences|access-date=18 October 2016}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Duvigneaud, Vincent}} [[Category:1901 births]] [[Category:1978 deaths]] [[Category:American biochemists]] [[Category:American biologists]] [[Category:American Nobel Prize winners]] [[Category:George Washington University faculty]] [[Category:Cornell University faculty]] {{Biography-stub}}