Hubert Bradford Vickery (28 February 1893 – 27 September 1978) was a Canadian-American plant biochemist who conducted early experiments to determine the amino acid compositions of proteins.
He then went to Dalhousie University, graduated with honours in chemistry, and taught at a high school in Halifax.
He received an MS in 1920 and then went to study organic chemistry at Yale University under Thomas B. Osborne.
He studied the hydrolysis of gliadin for his PhD in 1922[1][2] and then worked at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven.
[12][13][14] During World War II he worked with Edwin J. Cohn at Harvard and was invited in 1946 to witness the Bikini atoll atomic bomb test.