THE VIDEO SHELF · history of pcr
The Man Who Took LSD and Changed The World
Veritasium tells the story of Kary Mullis, the surfer and LSD user who invented PCR and won a Nobel Prize. It explains how PCR works and how it was developed at Cetus.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended as one of the most accessible introductions to PCR and its history.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Veritasium
- Topic
- history of pcr
- Format
- documentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2024–2026
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Veritassium did a recent video on Kary Mullis and PCR. It's one of the most accessible videos on PCR I've ever come across (I have no background in biology), and also an interesting history of Kary Mullis. [VIDEO]
wenc on Hacker News · 2024-12
In Intolerable Genius: Berkeley's Most Controversial Nobel Laureate (2019)Making PCR: A Story of Biotechnology (goodreads link: [LINK] ) for a short video version of this history, see [VIDEO] from Veritasium. reasons for recommendation: - it's an example in the biological science, to complement the heavy representation of examples from computer science and entrepreneurship …
fhe on Hacker News · 2025-01
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