Bruce Merrifield, whose greatly accelerated process for making proteins helped develop an array of medications and earned him the 1984 Nobel Prize in chemistry, has died. He was 84. Dr. Merrifield ...

Bruce Merrifield, who died Sunday at 84, won the 1984 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for creating a method for rapidly synthesizing proteins and peptides. Merrifield developed the method, known as solid ...

CRESSKILL, N.J. – Bruce Merrifield, whose accelerated process for making proteins helped researchers develop an array of medications and earned him the 1984 Nobel Prize in chemistry, has died. He was ...

In 1901, the German chemist Emil Fischer synthesized the first pure dipeptide molecule; more than half a century later, most chemists were still using the same technique of adding and removing ...