<h2 class="ltx_title_subsection"></h2><h2 id="auto-label-subsection-989777" class="ltx_title_subsection">7. Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1993) awarded to Kary Mullis for: invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method.<div></div></h2><blockquote><div><a href="http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1993/mullis-lecture.html">Rejection:</a>&nbsp;"And Dan Koshland would be the editor of Science when my first PCR paper was rejected from that journal and also the editor when PCR was three years later proclaimed Molecule of the Year."</div></blockquote>