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Topic: Kary Mullis


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  Keynote Speakers Inc. Kary Mullis : Kary Banks Mullis, Nobel Prize-winning chemist, wa
Kary Banks Mullis, Nobel Prize-winning chemist, was born on Dec. 28, 1944, in Lenoir, NC.
Kary Mullis received his bachelor's degree in Chemistry from Georgia Tech and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from U.C. Berkeley.
Mullis serves on the board of scientific advisors of several companies, including All Optical Networks and LabBook, and is a frequent lecturer at college campuses and academic meetings around the world.
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  Kary Mullis - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Mullis, Kary Banks, born in 1944, American biochemist and Nobel Prize winner.
Mullis revolutionized the fields of biology and medicine with his...
The speed and efficiency of DNA cloning were vastly improved in the 1980s with the invention of polymerase chain reaction (PCR).
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 Kary Mullis
Kary Banks Mullis (born December 28, 1944) is a biochemist.
Kary Mullis is among a scientific minority that claims that there is not sufficient evidence for stating that HIV causes AIDS.
Celia Farber: "Interview Kary Mullis", Spin July 1994, http://www.virusmyth.net/aids/data/cfmullis.htm.
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 Kary Mullis Summary
Kary Banks Mullis was born in Lenoir, North Carolina, in 1944, the son of Cecil Banks Mullis and Bernice Alberta (Barker) Fredericks.
Kary Banks Mullis was born in Lenoir, North Carolina, on December 28, 1944, the son of Cecil Banks Mullis and Bernice Alberta (Barker) Fredericks.
Mullis became known to a wider public as a potential forensic DNA analyst and witness for the defense in the OJ Simpson trial.
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  Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Kary Mullis   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Kary Banks Mullis (born December 28, 1944) is a biochemist.
In the 1980s, he invented the polymerase chain reaction, a central technique in molecular biology which allows the amplification of specified DNA sequences.
Kary Mullis is among a scientific minority that claims that there is not sufficient evidence for stating that HIV causes AIDS.
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 Kary Mullis - AIDS Wiki
Mullis came up with the idea of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), a central technique in molecular biology which is used to amplify specified DNA sequences.
Mullis is vocal in his criticism of centrally funded scientific research programmes, such as those supported by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.
Mullis achieved his greatest public fame as a forensic DNA analyst and witness for the defense in the OJ Simpson trial.
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 Keynote Speakers Inc. Kary Mullis : Kary Banks Mullis, Nobel Prize-winning chemist, wa   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Kary Mullis has authored several major patents; his patented inventions include the PCR technology and UV-sensitive plastic that changes color in response to light.
Kary Mullis works at Burstein Technologies in Irvine, California, where he is vice president and director of molecular biology.
Mullis serves on the board of scientific advisors of several companies, including All Optical Networks and LabBook, and is a frequent lecturer at college campuses and academic meetings around the world.
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 Print Dr. Kary Mullis Biography -- AEI Speakers Bureau
In 1986, Kary Mullis was named director of molecular biology at Xytronyx, Inc. in San Diego, where his work was concentrated in DNA technology and photochemistry.
Mullis was presented the honorary degree of Doctor of Science from the University of South Carolina in 1994.
Mullis serves on the board of scientific advisors of several companies, provides expert advice in legal matters involving DNA, and is a frequent lecturer at college campuses, corporations and academic meetings around the world.
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 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Kary Mullis - Dancing Naked in the Mind Field at Epinions.com
Kary Mullis is a man who isn't afraid to speak his mind, no matter what controversy he will stir up.
Mullis writes a series of sharp essays, urging the public to watch out for themselves and to question authority.
Mullis writes a number of chapters about traveling on the astral plane and raccoons that glow in the dark.
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 Kary Mullis a Rimini: un biochimico fuori dagli schemi
Kary Mullis a Rimini: un biochimico fuori dagli schemi
Parliamo di Kary Mullis, il biochimico californiano, eccentrico e provocatore, divenuto celebre per la scoperta della PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction): una tecnica che permette di amplificare in vitro frammenti anche minimi di DNA.
Kary Mullis incontrerà gli studenti del Polo Scientifico-Didattico di Rimini giovedì 10 maggio, alle 11,30, negli spazi dell'Aula Alberti (Via Sella n.
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 Advocates for Self-Government - Libertarian Education   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Mullis later said the psychedelic drug made possible his subsequent pioneering discoveries in biotechnology.
In 1993, Mullis won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for inventing the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), a method of duplicating small amounts of DNA.
Mullis also won the National Biotechnology Award (1991), the California Scientist of the Year Award (1992), and the Thomas A. Edison Award (1993).
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 Scientist says HIV not cause of AIDS   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Mullis said that if a person's immune system was infected by a large collection of dormant retroviruses and if that group of cells divide and multiply, the dormant retrovirus will be copied.
Mullis' response was that the cause of AIDS might not even be a virus, and that he was examining it in a different way than it has been now.
Mullis also responded to questions asked of him about the O.J. Simpson trial, where he will be on the stand as a defense witness in a couple of months, and about the autobiography that he is currently writing.
www.csulb.edu /~d49er/Issue26/26nmullis.html   (428 words)

  
 Center for UFO Studies
Here Bill Chalker describes the bizarre experiences of Kary Mullis, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his invention of a process that allows scientists to identify a fragment of DNA genetic code and then reproduce it in very large quantities.
By coincidence when she rang, Mullis had already been drawn to the book and was up to the point where Strieber reports strange “owls” and little men entering his house.
Mullis checked with his neighbor and sure enough he had come to the party on the second night, arriving to be seen by the terrified visitor.
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 Conversation for Exploration - Kary Mullis
Kary Mullis won the Nobel Prize for his invention of the polymerase chain reaction, a chemical procedure that allows scientists to "see" the structures of the molecules of genes.
Mullis is no shy, socially inept bench chemist, though; on the contrary, he has led as big and full a life as possible, opening himself to experiences like hallucinogenic drugs, surfing, casually handling dangerous chemicals, and taking shots at the sacred cows of science.
Legendary for his invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), which redefined the world of DNA and genetics, Mullis is also an accomplished surfer, a veteran of Berkeley in the sixties, and perhaps the only Nobel laureate to describe a possible encounter with aliens.
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 Kary Mullis   (Site not responding. Last check: )
He has also advocated that concentrations be measured in "number of things per milliliter" instead of "moless per milliliter" because of the arbitrariness of Avogadro's number.
Mullis, according to the above mentioned essay collection, has been at various times an avid surfer and drug-user.
Celia Farber: "Interview Kary Mullis", Spin July 1994.
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 Scientist at Work/Kary Mullis; After the 'Eureka,' a Nobelist Drops Out - New York Times
KARY MULLIS, Nobel laureate in chemistry, is jumping up and down at the kitchen table of his cabin, a place in the woods several miles beyond where the paved road ends.
Kary B. Mullis was born in 1944 in Lenoir, N.C., and grew up in South Carolina, where his father was a furniture salesman and his mother, who raised him after a separation, sold real estate.
Mullis explains that with the Board's ability to intervene in currency markets its members have ample opportunity to profit from their inside knowledge.
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 Kary Mullis - AIDS Wiki
Mullis came up with the idea of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), a central technique in molecular biology which is used to amplify specified DNA sequences.
Mullis is vocal in his criticism of centrally funded scientific research programmes, such as those supported by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.
Mullis achieved his greatest public fame as a forensic DNA analyst and witness for the defense in the OJ Simpson trial.
www.reviewingaids.org /awiki/index.php/Kary_Mullis   (955 words)

  
 Kary B. Mullis (1945 - )
Kary Mullis, a scientist and a surfer from La Jolla, California, considered an "intellectual maverick" by many, won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1993 for developing PCR.
The chemical methods that Kary B. Mullis developed for studying the DNA molecules of genetic material have further hastened the rapid development of genetic engineering.
Mullis has described how he got the idea for the PCR during a night drive in the Californian mountains.
www.cofc.edu /~deavorj/111/people/kbmullis.html   (778 words)

  
 Salon Health & Body | Nobel dude   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Kary Mullis revolutionized genetic research but thumbs his nose at the scientific establishment.
Somewhere in Mullis' home is a round medal with a bas-relief of Alfred Nobel, representing the highest honor in science, one shared by the likes of Albert Einstein, James Watson and Francis Crick.
They said, yeah, Mullis may have invented PCR, but all those drugs, and all that womanizing, and all those crazy ideas about mind expansion had essentially placed his reputation in the alleyway trash bin, but he was fun to joke about.
archive.salon.com /health/feature/2000/03/29/mullis   (936 words)

  
 HYLE 6-2 (2000): Book Review: Kary Mullis, Dancing Naked in the Mind Field, Pantheon Books, New York, 1998
Mullis also discussed his own formal and informal scientific education in four of the essays.
Mullis was almost called as a defense witness to discuss the labs’ handling of the DNA evidence.
Mullis does have several essays where he is concerned with more general issues about public policy and scientific practice.
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 Dr. Kary B. Mullis   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Kary B. Mullis (1944-) won the 1993 Nobel Prize for chemistry for revolutionizing the fields of biology and medicine with his method for producing abundant fragments of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA).
Mullis shared the Nobel Prize with British-born Canadian biochemist Michael Smith, who was honored for devising a technique to control the formation of proteins.
In 1998 Mullis was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in the United States.
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 Amazon.ca: Dancing Naked in the Mind Field: Books: Kary Mullis   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Author Kary Mullis attended the same high school as this reviewer, and knew some of the same people, but, unlike most of our school-mates, went on to win the Nobel prize in chemistry.
Mullis is deeply concerned about the evolution of science in our time.
kary mullis is a genius, but genius alone is not enough to encapsulate his humanistic and respectful value system.
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 Amazon.de: Dancing Naked in the Mind Field: English Books: Kary Mullis   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Mullis is a fascinating character and his autobiography will put to rest forever the stereotype of scientist as skeptical nerd.
When biochemist Mullis won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1993, the press played up his being the first surfer laureate, as well as the first to admit having used LSD.
But whether or not readers agree with Mullis or believe all the details in his accounts of some of his experiences, his eccentric and often insightful opinions about science and life in general will challenge them to reexamine their own beliefs.
www.amazon.de /Dancing-Naked-Mind-Field-Mullis/dp/product-description/0679774009   (848 words)

  
 Nobel Chemist Kary Mullis, Making Waves as a Mind Surfer
Nobel laureate chemist Kary Mullis has some distinctive opinions and character traits that set him apart from the average scientist.
Mullis asserts that "there is zero data that could support the statement that HIV is the probable cause of AIDS." He argues that the people who originally developed AIDS had multiple parasites and that AIDS is a variety of diseases.
Mullis claims that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health push the disease since it is a prime source of funding.
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 Amazon.com: Dancing Naked in the Mind Field: Books: Kary Mullis   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Kary Mullis is best known for winning a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1993 for his discovery of PCR (polymerase chain reaction), a technique which allows amplification of specified DNA sequences.
Mullis doesn't say where he got his data, but it is counter to the observed temperatures on the surface of the planet that shows temperatures going very clearly and strongly upwards.
Kary Mullis = Slept with dozens of smoking hot women, did more drugs than pink floyd, and then invented the most widely used process in biotechnology, won a nobel prize in chemistry, and had his discovery licensed for $300 million dollars to Roche.
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 Georgia Tech's Prize Alumnus
Mullis received his half of the prestigious honor for his invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), which many people consider the most significant advance in genetics in 40 years.
Back in 1983, while working as a chemist for Cetus Corp. in Emeryville, Calif., Mullis realized that by adding the right chemicals, a DNA section could be forced into replicating itself automatically and exponentially, similar to the way in which a reiterative computer loop repeats a process over and over.
The PCR patent is in Mullis' name, but it was owned by Cetus, which in turn sold it to Roche for $300 million--a record in the health-care field.
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 Kary Mullis
Mullis was born in the foothills of rural North Carolina, a childhood still vivid to him.
Mullis realized that he could instruct the polymerase to copy a specific gene – he just needed to add a couple of primers, oligonucleotides that would stick specifically to that gene.
Mullis and a colleague at Cetus, Fred A. Faloona, soon worked out the technical details that turned Mullis’ idea into reality.
www.mhhe.com /biosci/cellmicro/nester/graphics/nester3ehp/common/mullis.html   (491 words)

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