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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 109,934 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Robert Bruce Merrifield is the 160th most popular chemist (up from 184th in 2019), the 1,136th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,330th in 2019) and the 29th 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 160 out of 509. Before him are George Andrew Olah, John Frederic Daniell, Wilfrid Voynich, Heinrich Gustav Magnus, Satoshi Ōmura, and Akira Suzuki. After him are Paul D. Boyer, Richard Laurence Millington Synge, Nicolas Leblanc, Roald Hoffmann, Hans von Euler-Chelpin, and Robert Huber.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Robert Bruce Merrifield ranks 57. Before him are Alida Valli, Jane Russell, James Jones, Sugar Ray Robinson, Telmo Zarra, and Seretse Khama. After him are Alexandra of Yugoslavia, Viktor Kulikov, Gérard Debreu, Harald Quandt, Zizinho, and Dobrica Ćosić. Among people deceased in 2006, Robert Bruce Merrifield ranks 45. Before him are Bülent Ecevit, Nam June Paik, Melvin Schwartz, Alida Valli, Telmo Zarra, and P. W. Botha. After him are Zoia Ceaușescu, Shohei Imamura, Raymond Davis Jr., Mariska Veres, Romano Mussolini, and Shamil Basayev.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Bruce Merrifield ranks 1,136 out of 18,182. Before him are Ron Jeremy (1953), Louis Ignarro (1941), Stephen Crane (1871), James Brendan Connolly (1868), Dred Scott (1795), and Marcheline Bertrand (1950). After him are Donna Leon (1942), Sam Walton (1918), Martha Washington (1731), Baruch Samuel Blumberg (1925), Jackie Robinson (1919), and Arthur Ashe (1943).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Robert Bruce Merrifield ranks 29. Before him are Robert W. Holley (1922), Robert F. Furchgott (1916), Jerome Karle (1918), Paul Lauterbur (1929), Stanley Miller (1930), and Paul Flory (1910). After him are Paul D. Boyer (1918), Robert S. Mulliken (1896), Wallace Carothers (1896), Stephanie Kwolek (1923), Arthur Kornberg (1918), and Walter Gilbert (1932).

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