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Robert Bruce Merrifield was an American biochemist and the recipient of the 1984 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He was born in the family of George and Laurence Lucas Merrifield as their only son. Two years after his birth, the Merrifield family moved to California and during the Great Depression of the 1930s, they continued to move from place to place as his father, a furniture salesman, constantly searched for work. Merrifield attended about 40 schools before his family settled in Montebello, California. It was here, while attending high school, that he became interested in chemistry and constructed a small telescope. After graduating from high school in 1938, he entered Junior College in Pasadena, but transferred to the University of

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