Nobel Savage
Steven Shapin: Kary Mullis, 1 July 1999
Dancing Naked in the Mind Field
by Kary Mullis.
Bloomsbury, 209 pp., £12.99, March 1999,0 7475 4376 3 Show More
by Kary Mullis.
Bloomsbury, 209 pp., £12.99, March 1999,
“... playing on the seashore . . . whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me’. Kary Mullis approaches the seashore from a different direction. On the day he won the 1993 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, Mullis went surfing. The camera crews tried to follow him down the Southern California coast, ‘asking ... ”