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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1955

"for his work on biochemically important sulphur compounds, especially for the first synthesis of a polypeptide hormone"
Vincent du Vigneaud
Vincent du Vigneaud
USA
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY, USA
b. 1901
d. 1978
 
 
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