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You might be thinking of Kary Mullis, who supposedly came up with PCR while riding his motorcycle on LSD.

I thought he was driving in his car up a mountain with his wife/girlfriend asleep in the passenger seat.

I need to re-read his book

Riding a motorcycle on LSD is nuts

Mullis was a nutcase. He got banned from at least one conference for including porn in his slides.