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Robert Bruce Merrifield

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Robert Bruce Merrifield was an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1984 for inventing solid phase peptide synthesis, a method for building peptide chains on a solid support that transformed how peptides and proteins are synthesized in the laboratory.

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Birth Year
1921 1
Death Date
2006-05-14 1
Death Year
2006 1
Death Place
Cresskill, United States 1
Nationality
United States 1
Birthplace
Fort Worth, United States 1
Field
Field (category)
Chemistry 1
Field (category)
Biology 1
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1. Robert Bruce Merrifield (Wikidata)
  • P570 (date of death): year
    +2006-05-14T00:00:00Z
  • P570 (date of death): full date
    +2006-05-14T00:00:00Z
  • P27 (country of citizenship): United States
    Q30
  • P20 (place of death): Cresskill, United States
    Q1088520
  • P19 (place of birth): Fort Worth, United States
    Q16558
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Robert Bruce Merrifield (Wikipedia)
  • Works In: Biochemistry, Lead sentence
    Robert Bruce Merrifield (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.
  • Member Of: National Academy of Sciences, Categories
    Category:Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
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