Kary Mullis is awarded the The Nobel Prize in Chemistry

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1993 was awarded “for contributions to the developments of methods within DNA-based chemistry” jointly with one half to Kary B. Mullis “for his invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method” and with one half to Michael Smith “for his fundamental contributions to the establishment of oligonucleotide-based, site-directed mutagenesis and its development for protein studies.”

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  October 3, 2007. Nobel Prize. Kary Mullis’ Eureka Moment. Runtime: 4:14.
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