Kary Banks Mullis is an American molecular biologist who developed the polymerase chain reaction or PCR technique. PCR allows specific regions of DNA to be copied many times from a tiny sample, amplifying it to a large enough quantity to be analysed.
Kary
Banks Mullis
Kary Banks Mullis was the inventor
of PCR, the process for amplifying nucleic acids - National Inventors Hall
of Fame.
The
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1993
"for his invention of the polymerase
chain reaction (PCR) method"
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