# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kary-mullis
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:57:11.616Z

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description: "Kary Banks Mullis was an American biochemist. In recognition of his role in the invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique, he shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Michael Smith and was awarded the Japan Prize in the same year. PCR became a central technique in biochemistry and molecular biology, described by The New York Times as \"highly original and significant, virtually dividing biology into the two epochs of before PCR and after PCR.\""
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birthDate: "1944-12-28"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump