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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1993

"for contributions to the developments of methods within DNA-based chemistry"
"for his invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method"
"for his fundamental contributions to the establishment of oligonucleotide-based, site-directed mutagenesis and its development for protein studies"
Kary B. Mullis Michael Smith
Kary B. Mullis Michael Smith
half 1/2 of the prize half 1/2 of the prize
USA Canada

La Jolla, CA, USA
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, Canada
b. 1944 b. 1932
(in Blackpool, United Kingdom)
d. 2000
 
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