CHEMISTRY: Vincent du Vigneaud 1955 - Washington, DC
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Plaque to _ winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. This plaque is on the campus of GWU.
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Location: District of Columbia, United States
Date Posted: 05/18/2009
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"Vincent du Vigneaud (May 18, 1901 – December 11, 1978) was an American biochemist. He won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1955. For the isolation, structural identification and total synthesis of the cyclic peptide oxytocin." (
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The plaque reads: "True exploratory research is the working out of a winding trail into the unknown" Vincent du Vigneaud, PHD
1955 - Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
1932-1936 Chair, Biochemistry department The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences.