Webbuddy and kerri mullins buddy@buddymullins. com. Hope for the world. Webspeculation swirled around the cause of her illness. Or perhaps the relentless pressures of fame? We may never know the exact. Weba twist of fate after a college trip ended in tragedy, a young survivor was cared for by a family that began to suspect something wasn't right. Could they be caring. Webkary mullis, whose invention of the polymerase chain reaction technique earned him the nobel prize in chemistry in 1993, died of pneumonia on august 7,. When high school music teacher michael mccann discovers his wife is pregnant by his best friend, he divorces her and retreats into a life of solitude as a maker of finely crafted. Webkerri mullins points to herself as one of those miracles. She survived a bout with cancer earlier this year. “it’s been amazing what doors have opened to people. Mullis, a biochemist who won the 1993 nobel prize in chemistry for discovering a way to analyze dna easily and cheaply and thus pave the way for major. Webkary mullis died on monday, august 12, of heart disease and respiratory failure.