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Merrifield RobertBruce Biography

American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1984 for the invention of solid phase peptide synthesis. In 1963, he was sole author of a classic paper in the Journal of the American Chemical Society in which he reported a method he called "solid phase peptide synthesis". This article is the fifth most cited paper in the journals history. After raising their 6 children, his wife Elizabeth (Libby), a biologist by training, joined the Merrifield laboratory at Rockefeller University where she worked for over 23 years. After a long illness R. Bruce Merrifield died on 14 May 2006 at the age of 84 in his home in Cresskill, New Jersey. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less