However, this early manifestation of the basic PCR principle did not receive much attention at the time and the invention of the polymerase chain reaction in 1983 is generally credited to Kary Mullis.
Porén, este temperán exemplo do principio básico da PCR non recibiu moita atención, e a invención da reacción en cadea da polimerase en 1983 é xeralmente atribuída a Kary Mullis.