Bruce Merrifield, eminent American scientist, 1984 Nobel Prize winner and professor at The Rockefeller University, is noted for his single-handed development of solid phase peptide synthesis. The progress of biochemistry and related fields is closely correlated with the availability of pure peptides, and in this volume, Merrifield describes nearly 40 years of progress. The warmth and kindness of this sincere gentleman is described by his personal experiences. Many photographs depict both the professional as well as the personal side of Bruce Merrifield.
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"This book . . . has the sub-title 'The Concept and development [sic] of Solid-Phase Peptide Synthesis', the topic for which the author was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1984. . . . Merrifield's Nobel Prize is probably unique in modern science, in that it was awarded for work conceived in his own mind and achieved by his own hand. . . . He had effected singled-handedly a revolution in peptide chemistry . . . About 140 pages in all are devoted to peptide synthesis and related matters . . . However accounts of other aspects of Merrifield's life are not neglected: his wife and their six children, his 'laboratory family', foreign travels including the visit to Sweden for the Nobel ceremonies, etc. There are over 70 photographs, many of them involving chemists who will not have featured in other volumes of the [Profiles, Pathways and Dreams] Series."--Historical Group Newsletter, The Royal Society of Chemistry
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