CHEMIST

Vincent du Vigneaud

1901 - 1978

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Vincent du Vigneaud (May 18, 1901 – December 11, 1978) was an American biochemist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vincent du Vigneaud has received more than 106,193 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Vincent du Vigneaud is the 117th most popular chemist (up from 246th in 2019), the 719th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,592nd in 2019) and the 16th most popular American Chemist.

Vincent du Vigneaud is most famous for his discovery of the enzyme, phenylalanine hydroxylase, which catalyzes the conversion of phenylalanine to tyrosine.

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  • 54

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 18.43

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.52

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Vincent du Vigneaud ranks 117 out of 602. Before him are Akira Suzuki, Fritz Albert Lipmann, Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Richard Laurence Millington Synge, Harold Urey, and Archer Martin. After him are Gerhard Ertl, Ernst Otto Fischer, Manfred Eigen, Robert Burns Woodward, Georg Wittig, and Avram Hershko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Vincent du Vigneaud ranks 44. Before him are Milton H. Erickson, Margaret Mead, Robert Bresson, Jascha Heifetz, Nikolai Vatutin, and Henri Lefebvre. After him are Alfred Tarski, José Nasazzi, Arthur Liebehenschel, Carl Barks, Eisaku Satō, and Zhang Xueliang. Among people deceased in 1978, Vincent du Vigneaud ranks 23. Before him are Harry Martinson, Kurt Student, Houari Boumédiène, Margaret Mead, Willy Messerschmitt, and Ronnie Peterson. After him are Mohammed Daoud Khan, Hasso von Manteuffel, Jim Jones, Harold Lasswell, Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, and Nazli Sabri.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Vincent du Vigneaud ranks 719 out of 20,380. Before him are Jared Diamond (1937), Robert H. Goddard (1882), Haldan Keffer Hartline (1903), Montgomery Clift (1920), Edwin Booth (1833), and Robert Nozick (1938). After him are Warren Beatty (1937), Karl Malden (1912), Walter Hill (1942), Buckminster Fuller (1895), Alexander Calder (1898), and Danny Glover (1946).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Vincent du Vigneaud ranks 16. Before him are James B. Sumner (1887), Edward Adelbert Doisy (1893), Marshall Warren Nirenberg (1927), Stanford Moore (1913), Paul Berg (1926), and Harold Urey (1893). After him are Robert Burns Woodward (1917), Raymond Davis Jr. (1914), Wendell Meredith Stanley (1904), William Howard Stein (1911), Glenn T. Seaborg (1912), and Willard Libby (1908).

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