{"id":"xoo368x","internal_id":"b3e4615a-0223-4628-94dc-e5d52c403795","links":{"img_thumbnail":"https://digital.sciencehistory.org/downloads/deriv/syb7tx2/thumb_large_2X?disposition=inline","html_self":"https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/xoo368x"},"title":"Bruce Merrifield's video message for Helumt Zahn's birthday","additional_title":[],"format":["moving_image"],"genre":["Video Recordings"],"medium":["DVDs"],"extent":["5M 14S"],"language":["English"],"provenance":"","subject":["Zahn, Helmut, 1916-","Merrifield, Bruce, 1921-2006","Birthdays"],"department":"Archives","series_arrangement":[],"rights":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-RUU/1.0/","rights_holder":"","digitization_funder":"","file_creator":"Newhouse, Sarah","description":"A message recorded by biochemist Bruce Merrifield on the occasion of Helmut Zahn's 85th birthday in 2001. Merrifield won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1984 for his discovery of solid phase peptide synthesis. Zahn, a German chemist, was one of the first scientists to synthesize insulin. Merrifield reminiscences about visits to each other's laboratories and personal time spent together. ","description_html":"<p>A message recorded by biochemist Bruce Merrifield on the occasion of Helmut Zahn's 85th birthday in 2001. Merrifield won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1984 for his discovery of solid phase peptide synthesis. Zahn, a German chemist, was one of the first scientists to synthesize insulin. Merrifield reminiscences about visits to each other's laboratories and personal time spent together. </p>","published_at":"2026-05-15T15:30:07Z","updated_at":"2026-05-15T15:30:07Z","creator":[{"category":"creator_of_work","value":"Merrifield, Bruce, 1921-2006"}],"date_of_work":[{"start":"2001-05-26","start_qualifier":"","finish":"","finish_qualifier":"","note":"","formatted":"2001-May-26"}],"place":[{"category":"place_of_interview","value":"New Jersey--Cresskill"}],"inscription":[],"related_link":[],"additional_credit":[],"physical_container":null}