Robert Bruce Merrifield (1921-2006)

Awarded the Prize “for his development of methodology for chemical synthesis on a solid matrix.”

American biochemist. Merrifield was born on July 15, 1921 in Fort Worth, Texas. He graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1943 earned his Ph.D. in biochemistry there in 1949. In the same year he joined the staff of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, where he remained. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Merrifield died in Cresskill, New Jersey on May 14, 2006.