Robert Bruce Merrifield:
Robert Bruce Merrifield was an American chemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
July 15, 1921 in Fort Worth, Texas
Death:
May 14, 2006 in Cresskill, New Jersey
Claim to Fame:
Merrifield was an American biochemist who invented the process of solid phase peptide synthesis. Peptides would be built one amino acid at a time on a substrate of polymer to form custom chains and then the substrate would be chemically removed. This technique would earn him the 1984 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
