The Nobel Lecture - Kerry Mullis

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The transcript of the Nobel lecture given by Kerry Mullis, who won the Nobel prize in 1993 for his work on developing polymerase chain reaction PCR technology. T.I.L. Sanderson: I just love this idea that he just had the habit of going to a cabin in the woods to think. He was thinking since ugly no nucleotides were not that hard to make anymore. And when he finished his thought, he realized he had everything he needed to doPCR which he'd win the Nobel Prize for.

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