| Vincent du Vigneaud  Born: 18-May-1901
Birthplace: Chicago, IL
Died: 11-Dec-1978
Location of death: White Plains, NY
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Chemist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Synthesized vasopressin and oxytocin Vincent du Vigneaud began experimenting with explosives in his spare time while he was still in high school, and worked his way through college with jobs as an apple picker, librarian's assistant, mechanic, and waiter. He studied the hormone insulin, methyl groups, and penicillin, and researched sulfur compounds, particularly the amino acids cystine, cysteine, and methionine, each of which contain sulfur. He isolated vitamin H (biotin) in 1940, and described its structure in 1942. He synthesized penicillin in 1946, synthesized the pituitary hormones oxytocin and vasopressin in 1953 and 1954, respectively, and won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1955. He was idled by a stroke in 1974, and died four years later. He was known for his general joviality, and friends called him "Dee". Father: Alfred J. du Vigneaud (machine designer)
Mother: Mary Theresa du Vigneaud
Sister: Bertha (older)
Wife: Zella Zon Ford (chemistry teacher, m. 12-Jun-1924, d. 1977, one son, one daughter)
Son: Vincent, Jr. (physician, b. 1933)
Daughter: Marilyn Renee Brown (physician, b. 1935)
High School: Carl Schurz High School, Chicago, IL (1918)
University: BS Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1923)
University: MS Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1924)
Scholar: University of Pennsylvania (1924-25)
University: PhD Biochemistry, University of Rochester (1927)
Scholar: Johns Hopkins University (1927-28)
Scholar: Kaiser Wilhelm Institut in Dresden (1928-29)
Scholar: University College London (1928-29)
Scholar: University of Edinburgh (1929)
Teacher: Physiological Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1929-32)
Professor: Biochemistry, George Washington University Medical School (1932-38)
Professor: Biochemistry, Cornell University Medical College, NYC (1938-67)
Professor: Chemistry, Cornell University (1967-75)
CSW Hillebrand Award 1936
William H. Nichols Medal 1945
Borden Award 1947
Lasker Award 1948
Osborne and Mendel Award 1954
John Scott Medal 1954
Chandler Medal 1955
Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1955
Passano Award 1955
Willard Gibbs Medal 1956
DuPont 1924-25
National Research Council Fellowship, 1927-29
Alpha Chi Sigma Chemistry Fraternity 1930
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Philosophical Society 1944
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology President, 1951
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology President, 1951
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
National Academy of Sciences 1944
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases Trustee
New York Academy of Sciences
Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala Foreign Member, 1950
Royal Society of Edinburgh Foreign Member, 1955
Royal Institution of Great Britain Foreign Member, 1959
Stroke 1974
French Ancestry
Author of books:
A Trail of Research in Sulphur Chemistry and Metabolism and Related Field (1952, lectures)
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