Richard DiMarchi Receives Max Bergmann Medaille 2015

Richard DiMarchi, Standiford H. Cox Distinguished Professor and Linda & Jack Gill Chair in Biomolecular Sciences, has received the Max Bergmann Medaille 2015 for career achievements in peptide chemistry by the German Peptide Society. This international recognition is highly prestigious as Prof. Bergmann was of seminal importance to the development of the field, starting as a student of Emil Fischer. Prof. Bergmann emigrated from Germany in 1933 to start a laboratory at the Rockefeller University that was of seminal importance to the advancement of peptide sciences. Nobel laureates Bill Stein and Stanford Moore worked in his laboratory, and Prof. Bergmann was an inspiration of Bruce Merrifield in the development of solid -phase chemistry.