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|religion = |footnotes = |parents=Cecil Banks Mullis and Bernice Alberta Barker Mullis〔}} Kary Banks Mullis (born December 28, 1944) is a Nobel Prize-winning American biochemist, author, and lecturer. In recognition of his improvement of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique, he shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Michael Smith and earned the Japan Prize in the same year. The process was first described by Kjell Kleppe and 1968 Nobel laureate H. Gobind Khorana, and allows the amplification of specific DNA sequences.〔 The improvements made by Mullis allowed PCR to become a central technique in biochemistry and molecular biology, described by ''The New York Times'' as "highly original and significant, virtually dividing biology into the two epochs of before P.C.R. and after P.C.R."〔 He has defended AIDS denialism,〔〔〔〔〔〔 climate change denial.〔 He's also known for his peculiar thoughts on social sciences and astrology〔〔(''London Review of Books'', "Nobel Savage", by Steven Shapin )〕 All of these stances drew him criticism from the ''The New York Times''.〔 ==Early life== Mullis was born in Lenoir, North Carolina, near the Blue Ridge Mountains, on December 28, 1944. His family had a background in farming in this rural area. As a child, Mullis recalls, he was interested in observing organisms in the countryside. He grew up in Columbia, South Carolina,〔 where he attended Dreher High School. Mullis earned a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in chemistry〔 from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta in 1966, during which time he got married and started a business. He then received a PhD in biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1972; his research done in J. B. Neilands' laboratory focused on synthesis and structure of bacterial iron transporter molecules.〔 Following his graduation, Mullis became a postdoctoral fellow in pediatric cardiology at the University of Kansas Medical School, going on to complete two years of postdoctoral work in pharmaceutical chemistry at the University of California, San Francisco. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kary Mullis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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