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Vincent du Vigneaud
(18 May 1901 - 11 Dec 1978)
American biochemist.
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Science Quotes by Vincent du Vigneaud (1 quote)
Old age came a number of times to meet me. I would just send word that I wasn’t at home! That way, old age grew older but I remained young!”
— Vincent du Vigneaud
His reply when asked the secret of his “youthfulness❞ late in his life. As given in Pandri Nath, Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya: Life and Work (1987), 110.
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- 18 May - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Vigneaud's birth.

In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) --
Carl Sagan
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