Vincent du vigneaud autobiography

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Vincent du Vigneaud May 18 , — December 11 , was an American biochemist. He won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in For the isolation, structural identification and total synthesis of the cyclic peptide oxytocin. Vigneaud graduated from Schurz High School in He was influenced by lectures of Carl Shipp Marvel. After receiving his M. Murlin at the University of Rochester for a Ph.

D thesis in He married Zella Zon Ford June 12 He graduated in with his work The Sulfur in Insulin. In he suffered from a stroke which ended his academic career.