Kary B. Mullis sits in his beachfront apartment in La Jolla, surrounded by his tools of seduction. There are bottles of wine, surfboards, a guitar (“Women go crazy when you play the guitar for ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. Kary Mullis, whose invention of the polymerase chain reaction technique earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1993, died of pneumonia on ...

Kary Mullis, a chemist in the department of human genetics at Cetus Corporation, decided to solve the primer specificity problem. During a night-time drive along the California coast in 1983, an idea ...

Then there was Dr Kary Mullis, who won a share of the 1993 Nobel Prize in chemistry. Following his win, he expressed skepticism about climate change, and the role of HIV in AIDS, as well as belief ...

In May 1983, Kary Mullis, a young technician working for the Cetus Corporation, sat with idle hands and a busy mind. The laboratory he worked in was attempting to study DNA mutations linked to ...

The technique has a 40-year history, and was developed in 1983 by the biochemist, Kary Mullis, who won the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery. PCR effectively amplifies selected ...