Jerome Vinograd (February 9, 1913 – July 7, 1976) was an American biochemist who developed density gradient ultracentrifugation and analytical band centrifugation, and contributed to the understanding of DNA supercoiling.

In 1936 he went to the University of California, Los Angeles and obtained a Master of Arts degree in organic chemistry with Professor William G. Young.

[1] From 1941 to 1951, Vinograd worked for the Shell Development Company in Emeryville, California.

During this period, his wife Sherna gave birth to their two daughters, Julia and Deborah.

In 1972, the Helen Hay Whitney Foundation gave him the T. Duckett Jones Award.