Vincent Du Vigneaud (1901-1978)

Awarded the Prize “for his work on biochemically important sulphur compounds, especially for the first synthesis of a polypeptide hormone.”

American biochemist. Vigneaud was born on May 18, 1901 in Chicago. Du Vigneaud studied at the University of Illinois, Urbana, took his doctorate from the University of Rochester in 1927, then studied at Johns Hopkins University, the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, the University of Edinburgh. He headed the Biochemistry department of the George Washington University Medical School from 1932 to 1938, was Professor Head of the Department of Biochemistry at the Cornell University Medical College from 1938 to 1967, Professor of Chemistry at Cornell University from 1967 to 1975. Vigneaud died on December 11, 1978 at White Plains, New York.