What is the'Nobel disease' that Mullis is associated with?
Proclivity to pursue fringe topics
Inability to repeat past success
Social detachment
Memory loss
Answer
The Nobel disease is a term coined to describe the tendency of Nobel laureates to pursue fringe topics in their later years. Kary Mullis, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1993 for his work on PCR, is a notable example of this phenomenon. In his later years, Mullis became increasingly interested in fringe topics such as astrology and psychic phenomena.
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