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Robert Bruce Merrifield

1921 - 2006

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Bruce Merrifield is the 169th most popular chemist (up from 234th in 2019), the 872nd most popular biography from United States (up from 1,457th in 2019) and the 38th most popular American Chemist.

Robert Bruce Merrifield is most famous for his discovery of solid phase peptide synthesis, which is a technique for making peptides in a laboratory.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Robert Bruce Merrifield ranks 169 out of 602. Before him are Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, Bengt I. Samuelsson, Frederick Gowland Hopkins, Willard Libby, John E. Walker, and Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran. After him are Derek Barton, Richard F. Heck, Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier, Akira Suzuki, William Standish Knowles, and Alan J. Heeger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Robert Bruce Merrifield ranks 38. Before him are Vasily Smyslov, Gianni Agnelli, Yoichiro Nambu, Patricia Highsmith, Ralph Asher Alpher, and Lana Turner. After him are Amin al-Hafiz, Satyajit Ray, Deborah Kerr, Jane Russell, Marija Gimbutas, and Vasily Stalin. Among people deceased in 2006, Robert Bruce Merrifield ranks 28. Before him are Oriana Fallaci, Ibrahim Rugova, Giacinto Facchetti, Anna Politkovskaya, Melvin Schwartz, and Lennart Meri. After him are Jack Palance, Muriel Spark, Clay Regazzoni, Robert Altman, Joseph Barbera, and Bülent Ecevit.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Bruce Merrifield ranks 872 out of 20,380. Before him are Alvin Toffler (1928), Ellen Burstyn (1932), Boris Johnson (1964), Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (1902), Richard Dean Anderson (1950), and Tim Robbins (1958). After him are Bill Murray (1950), Jill Biden (1951), J. D. Tippit (1924), Robert Kardashian (1944), Richard F. Heck (1931), and Charles Bolden (1946).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Robert Bruce Merrifield ranks 38. Before him are Jerome Karle (1918), Glenn T. Seaborg (1912), Marshall Warren Nirenberg (1927), Robert W. Holley (1922), Paul D. Boyer (1918), and Willard Libby (1908). After him are Richard F. Heck (1931), William Standish Knowles (1917), Alan J. Heeger (1936), Robert Curl (1933), Thomas A. Steitz (1940), and Richard R. Schrock (1945).

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