Moulis

Kary Mullis

Kary banks Mullis (December 1944 August 7, 2019), a famous American chemist, won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1993 for his invention of "polymerase chain reaction (PCR)" method for efficiently replicating DNA fragments.

Kelly Mullis was born in North Carolina in 1944, graduated from Georgia Institute of technology in 1966, and received a Ph.D. in biochemistry from University of California, Berkeley in 1973. On August 7, 2019, Mullis died of pneumonia at the age of 74.

Life of the characters

Morris was born in North Carolina in December 1944. in the 1950s, Mullis developed a strong interest in chemistry. When he was a high school student, he learned how to synthesize and manufacture solid fuels for rocket propulsion by chemical methods. Therefore, he chose chemistry as his major in University. In 1966, Mullis graduated from the Department of chemistry, Georgia Institute of technology. In 1972, Mullis obtained his Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley. His research work focused on how to synthesize proteins and study the structure of proteins. After two years of postdoctoral work, Mullis went to Cetus, a biotechnology company. Mullis worked as a DNA chemist at Cetus for seven years. In 1983, Mullis invented PCR technology. In 1993, for the invention of PCR technology, Mullis and Michael Smith shared the Nobel Prize in chemistry, and also won the Japan International Prize in the same year. After winning the Nobel Prize, Mullis said that he thought of this breakthrough on the way from Berkeley to Mendocino. On a dark road, he "solved the most troublesome problem in DNA chemistry with a flash of inspiration.". In 1998, Mullis also wrote a humorous autobiography, dancing naked in the mind field. In this autobiography, he questioned that HIV caused AIDS, thought that there was not enough scientific basis, and publicly expressed his support for astrology. Mullis's remarks also caused a lot of controversy. on August 7, 2019, Mullis died of pneumonia at the age of 74.

Character evaluation

Highly innovative, it is very important to divide biology into two eras: pre PCR era and post PCR era. (New York Times review)