Peptide Synthesizer
date: label: date made
content: 1965-1966
notes: label: Description
content: Robert Bruce Merrifield (1921–2006) was an American biochemist who won the 1984 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the invention of solid phase peptide synthesis. John Stewart (1924-2011) was a biochemist. Nils Jernberg was head of the instrument shop at the Rockefeller Institute.
label: Description
content: Ref: Robert Bruce Merrifield, John M. Stewart, and Nils Jernberg, “Apparatus for the Automated Synthesis of Peptides,” U.S. Patent 3,531,258 (Sept. 29, 1970), assigned to the United States of America.
label: Description
content: “R. Bruce Merrifield, Who Won Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Dies at 84,” New York Times (May 20, 2006), p. D8.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Rockefeller University through Bruce Merrifield
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.0492.02
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0492.02
label: accession number
content: 1988.0492
label: accession number
content: 1988.0492 DUP 1
label: accession number
content: 1988.0492 DUP 1 DUP 1
label: patent number
content: 3531258
objectType: label: Object Name
content: reaction vessel, peptide synthesizer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal; glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 28 in x 21 1/2 in x 18 in; 71.12 cm x 54.61 cm x 45.72 cm