Merrifield

Merrifield definition - medical

Mer·ri·field (mĕrˈə-fēldˌ), R(obert) Bruce Born 1921.

American biochemist. He won a 1984 Nobel Prize for developing a method of synthesizing peptides and proteins from amino acids.

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