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Also Known As Kary Banks Mullis
Born December 28, 1944 • North Carolina
Died August 7, 2019 (aged 74) • Newport Beach • California
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1993)
Inventions polymerase chain reaction
Subjects Of Study DNA • polymerase chain reaction

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