In the 1950s in Columbia, South Carolina, it was considered OK for kids to play with weird things. We could go to the hardware store and buy 100 feet of dynamite fuse.

Mullis earned a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta in 1966 during which time he got married and started a business. Accreditation of the PCR technique
A concept similar to that of PCR had been described before Mullis' work. All humans are.

He has promoted AIDS denialismclimate change denial and his belief in astrology. [scientific citation needed] The improvements made by Mullis allowed PCR to become 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 P. R.