Vincent du Vigneaud

Awards

1. 1948

   Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

   Biology

   For studies of transmethylation as essential to animal nutrition, and for contributions to the structure and synthesis of biotin and penicillin.

2. 1955

   Nobel Prize — Chemistry

   Chemistry

   for his work on biochemically important sulphur compounds, especially for the first synthesis of a polypeptide hormone