The biologist Kary Mullis died at the age of 74. Here is all you want to know, and more!
Biography - A Short Wiki
Nobel Prize-winning American biochemist and author who received both the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the Japan Prize in 1993 for his work on the polymerase chain reaction.
He was married four times and had three children by two ex-wives.
Quotes
"It’s not blaming the victim. It’s not anybody’s fault. They just did something that didn’t work, that’s all.
"Law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us.
"Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.
"Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself.
"We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to drop a nuclear weapon.