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Kary B. Mullis – Nobel Lecture - NobelPrize.org

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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"

Navigate to: Summary -- Facts -- Nobel Prize lecture -- Biographical -- Interview -- Photo gallery -- Other resources - Michael Smith Press release Award ceremony speech Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1993 The Polymerase Chain Reaction In 1944 Erwin Schroedinger , stimulated intellectually by Max Delbrück , published a little book called What is Life? It was an inspiration to the first of the molecular biologists, and has been, along with Delbrück himself, credited for directing the research during the next decade that solved the mystery of how “like begat like.” Max was awarded this P

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