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Inventors Kary Banks Mullis
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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