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The Nobel Prize in

Chemistry 1993

Prize Amount: 6,700,000 SEK

Laureates

Kary B. Mullis

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"for his invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method"

Michael Smith

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"for his fundamental contributions to the establishment of oligonucleotide-based, site-directed mutagenesis and its development for protein studies"