Kary Mullis, the Nobel Prize-winning biochemist who graduated from Columbia’s Dreher High School, died Wednesday at the age of 74. Mullis was famous for developing the technique for amplifying DNA, a ...

WASHINGTON — Kary Mullis, who shared a Nobel Prize in chemistry for devising a technique vital in DNA research and technology, died Wednesday in Newport Beach, Calif. Dr. Mullis, one of the most ...

LOS ANGELES —Kary B. Mullis was an LSD-dropping, climate-change-denying, astrology-believing, board-surfing, Nobel Prize-winning chemist who was both widely respected and equally criticized for his ...

Welcome to the early edition of the weekly science column I publish in Saturday’s Orange County Register. Today you’ll read about how Nobel laureate Kary Mullis of Newport Beach has quietly been ...

Kary Mullis, PhD, the scientist who shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his invention of the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) at Cetus during the 1980s, has died from pneumonia at the age of ...

My reporting skills must be slipping. A famous chemist who invented an invaluable way to study DNA faster and more easily has been hanging out at UC Irvine for a couple of years and I only recently ...

Kary Mullis died on August 7 th 2019, from pneumonia. The 1993 Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry, who received the award for the invention of the Polymerase chain reaction (PCR), was 74 years old. Kary ...

Kary B. Mullis sits in his beachfront apartment in La Jolla, surrounded by his tools of seduction. There are bottles of wine, surfboards, a guitar (“Women go crazy when you play the guitar for them”), ...

Kary Mullis, who shared a Nobel Prize in chemistry for devising a technique vital in DNA research and technology and who appeared to be one of the most unconventional winners of the award, died Aug. 7 ...

Kary Mullis, who shared a Nobel Prize in chemistry for devising a technique vital in DNA research and technology, and who appeared to be one of the most unconventional winners of the award, died Aug.

The scientist, seen here speaking in 1995, had a reputation for ignoring the normal strictures, cautions and conventions (AFP/Getty) Mullis, who has died of pneumonia aged 74, shared the prize in 1993 ...