Kary B. Mullis was an LSD-dropping, climate-change-denying, astrology-believing, board surfing, Nobel Prize-winning chemist who was both widely respected and equally criticized for his controversial ...

WASHINGTON — Kary Mullis, who shared a Nobel Prize in chemistry for devising a technique vital in DNA research and technology, died Wednesday in Newport Beach, Calif. Dr. Mullis, one of the most ...

When Kary Mullis developed the idea for a machine that “clones” DNA while driving at night in northern California, he knew he was on to something big. “I thought to myself, ‘This is going to make me a ...

Kary Banks Mullis, who won the 1993 Nobel Prize for chemistry, died Wednesday in Newport Beach, Calif. He was 74. Born Dec. 28, 1944, in Hickory, N.C., Mullis was the son of Cecil B. Mullis and ...

My reporting skills must be slipping. A famous chemist who invented an invaluable way to study DNA faster and more easily has been hanging out at UC Irvine for a couple of years and I only recently ...

Kary Mullis died on August 7 th 2019, from pneumonia. The 1993 Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry, who received the award for the invention of the Polymerase chain reaction (PCR), was 74 years old. Kary ...

Kary B. Mullis, a biochemist who won the 1993 Nobel Prize in chemistry for discovering a way to analyze DNA easily and cheaply and thus pave the way for major advances in medical diagnostics, ...

Kary Mullis, PhD, the scientist who shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his invention of the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) at Cetus during the 1980s, has died from pneumonia at the age of ...

Skip the gold jewelry this Valentine’s Day and go straight to a gold plated medal. On Sunday, the Nobel Prize of Dr. Kary Mullis will be put up for auction at the Sheraton Pasadena Hotel in Pasadena, ...

Kary Mullis, who shared a Nobel Prize in chemistry for devising a technique vital in DNA research and technology, and who appeared to be one of the most unconventional winners of the award, died Aug.

The cause was heart and respiratory failure brought on by pneumonia, his wife, Nancy Cosgrove Mullis, said. The process for analyzing DNA that Mullis invented is called polymerase chain reaction, or ...