It appears that new accounts can't edit comments. Here is the Mullis Nobel lecture mentioning Max Gergel that I meant to link in footnote 2: http://nobelprize.

It appears that new accounts can't edit comments. Here is the Mullis Nobel lecture mentioning Max Gergel that I meant to link in footnote 2: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1993/mullis-lecture.html http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1993/...