Kary Mullis
Kary Banks Mullis was an American biochemist. In recognition of his role in the invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique, he shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Michael Smith and was awarded the Japan Prize in the same year. PCR became a central technique in biochemistry and molecular biology, described by The New York Times as "highly original and significant, virtually dividing biology into the two epochs of before PCR and after PCR."
Background
- Born in
- Lenoir
- Educated at
- University of California, BerkeleyGeorgia TechDreher High School
- Awards
- 🏆 Nobel Prize in Chemistry🏆 Robert Koch Prize🏆 Japan Prize🏆 Canada Gairdner International Award🏆 National Inventors Hall of Fame
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Joe Neilands
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Trending topics shown first"Years from now, people will find our acceptance of the HIV theory of AIDS as silly as we find those who excommunicated Galileo."
"People keep asking me, "You mean you don’t believe that HIV causes AIDS?" And I say, "Whether I believe it or not is irrelevant! I have no scientific evidence for it." I might believe in God, and He c…"
"It’s not even probable, let alone scientifically proven, that HIV causes AIDS. If there is evidence that HIV causes AIDS, there should be scientific documents which either singly or collectively demon…"
"Kary Mullis: Dancing Naked in the Mind Field, Pantheon Books, New York, 1998"
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