Nobel Prize in chemistry, 1993
"for contributions to the developments of methods within DNA-based chemistry"
firstname: Kary B.
surname: Mullis
motivation: "for his invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method"
firstname: Michael
surname: Smith
motivation: "for his fundamental contributions to the establishment of oligonucleotide-based, site-directed mutagenesis and its development for protein studies"