Symposium co-Chair George Barany opens the 1999 Merrifield Award ceremony.

Seated on stage from left to right are Professor Daniel H. Rich of the University of Wisconsin-Madison (Award winner), Rao Makineni (Award benefactor), Robert S. Hodges (American Peptide Society President), Gregg B. Fields (Symposium co-Chair), and off to the far right, session co-Chairs Ralph F. Hirschmann and Bruce Merrifield. The slide on the left screen is of Professor Merrifield, 1984 Nobel laureate in Chemistry, after whom the award is named. Click here to see other slides used by Professor Barany in his introduction of Professor Rich.

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