R.B. Merrifield Notebook
Scope and content
This notebook covers the period 26 May, 1959 through 25 January 1960 and sets out Merrifield's general conception of solid phase peptide synthesis.
Dates
- Creation: 1959
Language of Materials
Text in English.
Biographical sketch
Robert Bruce Merrifield was born at Fort Worth, TX on 15 July 1921. He attended UCLA and in 1949 accepted a position at Rockefeller Institute (later University) in New York City. He worked on dinucleotide and peptide growth factors and, in 1959, wrote a groundbreaking paper on what he called solid phase peptide synthesis (SPPS). This work led to a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1984. Robert Bruce Merrifield died in Cresskill, NJ on 14 May, 2006.
Extent
1 Linear Feet (1 box; 1 notebook)
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Source of acquisition--Merrifield, Elizabeth L. . Method of acquisition--Gift ;; Date of acquisition--2008..
General Note
This is a school type notebook kept by Merrifield in 1959. It is numbered "321" on the front cover.
Genre / Form
Topical
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
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