View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. Kary Mullis, whose invention of the polymerase chain reaction technique earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1993, died of pneumonia on ...

Mullis wanted to speed things up, and so he developed a technique that would later win him a Nobel prize. His solution was polymerase chain reaction (PCR), a molecular technique that rapidly ...

As devastating as the COVID-19 pandemic was, the outcome would have been far worse without technologies such as polymerase chain reaction ... for which he won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and ...