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Born Dec 28, 1944 · Lenoir, North Carolina, United States
Awards: Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Canada Gairdner International Award, National Inventors Hall of Fame, ASHG Lifetime Achievement Award, Robert Koch Prize, Japan Prize, honorary doctorate of the Masaryk University, John Scott Award
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…