Vincent du Vigneaud

Research.com Recognitions

• 1955 - Nobel Prize for his work on biochemically important sulphur compounds, especially for the first synthesis of a polypeptide hormone
• 1948 - Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, Lasker Foundation
• 1945 - William H. Nichols Medal, American Chemical Society (ACS)
• 1944 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
• 1933 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Best Publications

• THE SYNTHESIS OF AN OCTAPEPTIDE AMIDE WITH THE HORMONAL ACTIVITY OF OXYTOCIN

  Vincent du Vigneaud;Charlotte Ressler;Carleton W. Roberts

  747
  Citations

• A Method of Synthesis of Long Peptide Chains Using a Synthesis of Oxytocin as an Example

  Miklos Bodanszky;Vincent du Vigneaud

  707
  Citations

• The sequence of amino acids in oxytocin, with a proposal for the structure of oxytocin.

  Vincent du Vigneaud;Charlotte Ressler;Stuart Trippett

  696
  Citations

• The Synthesis of Oxytocin1

  Vincent du Vigneaud;Charlotte Ressler;John M. Swan;Carleton W. Roberts

  561
  Citations

• ENZYMATIC CLEAVAGE OF GLYCINAMIDE FROM VASOPRESSIN AND A PROPOSED STRUCTURE FOR THIS PRESSOR-ANTIDIURETIC HORMONE OF THE POSTERIOR PITUITARY

  Vincent du Vigneaud;H. Claire Lawler;Edwin A. Popenoe

  428
  Citations

• A highly potent analogue of oxytocin, desamino-oxytocin.

  Derek B. Hope;V.V.S. Murti;Vincent du Vigneaud

  374
  Citations

• THE UTILIZATION OF THE METHYL GROUP OF METHIONINE IN THE BIOLOGICAL SYNTHESIS OF CHOLINE AND CREATINE

  Vincent du Vigneaud;Mildred Cohn;Joseph P. Chandler;Jay R. Schenck

  291
  Citations

• A NEW SYNTHESIS OF CARNOSINE, WITH SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE SPLITTING OF THE BENZYL GROUP FROM CARBOBENZOXY DERIVATIVES AND FROM BENZYLTHIO ETHERS

  Robert H. Sifferd;Vincent du Vigneaud

  251
  Citations

• A SYNTHETIC PREPARATION POSSESSING BIOLOGICAL PROPERTIES ASSOCIATED WITH ARGININEVASOPRESSIN

  Vincent du Vigneaud;Duane T. Gish;Panayotis G. Katsoyannis

  248
  Citations

• THE EFFECT OF CHOLINE ON THE ABILITY OF HOMOCYSTINE TO REPLACE METHIONINE IN THE DIET

  Vincent du Vigneaud;Joseph P. Chandler;A.W. Moyer;Dorothy M. Keppel

  231
  Citations

• A METHOD FOR PROTECTING THE IMIDAZOLE RING OF HISTIDINE DURING CERTAIN REACTIONS AND ITS APPLICATION TO THE PREPARATION OF l-AMINO-N-METHYLHISTIDINE

  Vincent du Vigneaud;Otto K. Behrens

  208
  Citations

• The purification and the amino acid content of vasopressin preparations.

  Robert A. Turner;John G. Pierce;Vincent du Vigneaud

  196
  Citations

• THE RACEMIZATION OF AMINO ACIDS IN AQUEOUS SOLUTION BY ACETIC ANHYDRIDE

  Vincent du Vigneaud;Curtis E. Meyer

  191
  Citations

• THE TRANSFER OF THE METHYL GROUP FROM METHIONINE TO CHOLINE AND CREATINE

  Vincent du Vigneaud;Joseph P. Chandler;Mildred Cohn;George Bosworth Brown

  179
  Citations

• THE FORMATION OF A HOMOLOGUE OF CYSTINE BY THE DECOMPOSITION OF METHIONINE WITH SULFURIC ACID

  Lewis W. Butz;Vincent du Vigneaud

  171
  Citations

• PARTIAL PURIFICATION AND AMINO ACID CONTENT OF VASOPRESSIN FROM HOG POSTERIOR PITUITARY GLANDS

  Edwin A. Popenoe;H. Claire Lawler;Vincent du Vigneaud

  129
  Citations

• Arginine-Vasotocin, a Synthetic Analogue of the Posterior Pituitary Hormones Containing the Ring of Oxytocin and the Side Chain of Vasopressin

  Panayotis G. Katsoyannis;Vincent du Vigneaud

  128
  Citations

• THE FORMATION OF CYSTEINE FROM HOMOCYSTEINE AND SERINE BY LIVER TISSUE OF RATS

  Francis Binkley;Vincent du Vigneaud

  119
  Citations

• CHARACTERIZATION OF THE FUNCTIONAL GROUPS OF BIOTIN

  Klaus Hofmann;Donald B. Melville;Vincent du Vigneaud

  117
  Citations

• A COMPARISON OF THE GROWTH-PROMOTING PROPERTIES OF d- AND l-CYSTINE

  Vincent du Vigneaud;Ralph Dorfmann;Hubert S. Loring

  116
  Citations