Robert BruceMerrifield (July 15, 1921 – May 14, 2006) was an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1984 for the invention of solid phase peptide synthesis. [2 ]
BruceMerrifield was an American biochemist and educator, who in 1984 received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his development of a simple and ingenious method for synthesizing chains of amino acids, or polypeptides, in any predetermined…
At the beginning of the 1960s, BruceMerrifield developed a method for avoiding significant impurities in the final product that result from a relatively small amount of impurities in each step.
R. B. Merrifield prožil dětství v Kalifornii, v době krize putoval s rodiči za výdělkem z jednoho místa na druhé. Střední školu ukončil v kalifornském Montebellu.