An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

16061 entries, 14144 authors and 1947 subjects. Updated: December 10, 2024

VIGNEAUD, Vincent du

3 entries
  • 1085

A further note on the identity of vitamin H with biotin.

Science, 92, 609-10, 1940.

Isolation of β-biotin (formerly known as vitamin H). With D. B. Melville, P. György, and C. S. Rose.



Subjects: NUTRITION / DIET › Vitamins
  • 1175.3

The synthesis of an octapeptide amide with the hormonal activity of oxytocin.

J. Amer. chem. Soc., 75, 4879-80, 1953.

Synthesis of oxytocin. With C. Ressler, J. M. Swan, C. W. Roberts, P. G. Katsoyannis, and S. Gordon.

In 1955 Vigneaud was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his work on biochemically important sulphur compounds, especially for the first synthesis of a polypeptide hormone."  

See also No. 1175.4.



Subjects: Ductless Glands: Internal Secretion › Pituitary, NOBEL PRIZES › Nobel Prize in Chemistry (selected)
  • 1175.4

A synthetic preparation possessing biological properties associated with arginine-vasopressin.

J. Amer. chem. Soc., 76, 4751-52, 1954.

Synthesis of vasopressin. With D. T. Gish and P. G. Katsoyannis.



Subjects: Ductless Glands: Internal Secretion › Pituitary