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Robert Bruce Merrifield

Chemistry

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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