| Description |
1 box (1 notebook) |
| Note |
This is a school type notebook kept by Merrifield in 1959. It is numbered "321" on the front cover. |
| Summary |
This notebook covers the period May 26, 1959 through January 25,1960 and sets out Merrifield's general conception of solid phase peptide synthesis. |
| Biography |
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. |
| Cite As |
R.B. Merrifield Notebook, 1959, Science History Institute Archives, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. |
| Gift |
Gift ; Merrifield, Elizabeth L. ; 2008. |
| Language |
Text in English. |
| Subject(s) |
Merrifield, Bruce, 1921-2006 -- Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
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Peptides.
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Peptides -- Synthesis.
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Nobel Prize winners.
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Solid-phase synthesis.
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Archival materials.
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| Alternate Title |
Robert Bruce Merrifield notebook |
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Notebook of Bruce Merrifield |
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Merrifield notebook |
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