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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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Bruce Merrifield has received more than 117,359 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Robert Bruce Merrifield is the 234th most popular chemist (down from 160th in 2019), the 1,457th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,136th in 2019) and the 47th 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 234 out of 602. Before him are Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, S. P. L. Sørensen, Hideki Shirakawa, Leo Baekeland, Luis Federico Leloir, and Charles J. Pedersen. After him are Roger D. Kornberg, Antoine Jérôme Balard, Johan August Arfwedson, Henri Victor Regnault, Geoffrey Wilkinson, and Mária Telkes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Robert Bruce Merrifield ranks 74. Before him are Gérard Debreu, Karel Appel, Amin al-Hafiz, Françoise Gilot, Thomas Schelling, and Jack Steinberger. After him are Lydia Litvyak, Paul Schäfer, Geoffrey Wilkinson, Chris Marker, Yuri Nikulin, and Murray Bookchin. Among people deceased in 2006, Robert Bruce Merrifield ranks 58. Before him are Gillo Pontecorvo, Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Romano Mussolini, Mariska Veres, Karel Appel, and Ta Mok. After him are James Van Allen, Murray Bookchin, David Bronstein, Shamil Basayev, Glenn Ford, and Angelica Rozeanu.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Bruce Merrifield ranks 1,457 out of 20,380. Before him are Carroll Baker (1931), Alan J. Pakula (1928), George Takei (1937), William Miller (1782), Larry Bird (1956), and Brooke Shields (1965). After him are Roger D. Kornberg (1947), James Garner (1928), Elliott Gould (1938), Walter Brennan (1894), Bruce Dern (1936), and Jeff Bennett (1962).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Robert Bruce Merrifield ranks 47. Before him are Wallace Carothers (1896), Alan J. Heeger (1936), Donald J. Cram (1919), Stephanie Kwolek (1923), Alfred G. Gilman (1941), and William Lipscomb (1919). After him are Roger D. Kornberg (1947), Elias James Corey (1928), Paul Lauterbur (1929), Thomas A. Steitz (1940), Joseph L. Goldstein (1940), and Walter Gilbert (1932).

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