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Carl Woese (/ ˈ w oʊ z /; [3] July 15, 1928 – December 30, 2012) was an American microbiologist and biophysicist. Woese is famous for defining the Archaea (a new domain of life) in 1977 through a pioneering phylogenetic taxonomy of 16S ribosomal RNA, a technique that has revolutionized microbiology.
Jul 11, 2024 · Carl Woese (born July 15, 1928, Syracuse, New York, U.S.—died December 30, 2012, Urbana, Illinois) was an American microbiologist who discovered the group of single-cell prokaryotic organisms known as archaea, which constitute a third domain of life.
Apr 30, 2014 · Carl Woese may be the greatest scientist you've never heard of. A physicist-turned-microbiologist, he studied the molecules of life—nucleic acids—but his ambitions were hardly...
Apr 30, 2018 · Carl Woese was obsessed with truth. He wanted to discover if all life on Earth had evolved from a single common ancestor. In addition to answering his own question he redrew the tree of life.
Carl Woese was a professor of microbiology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a faculty member of the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology. He was awarded the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation “genius” award in 1984, and the National Academy of Sciences elected him to membership in 1988.
Feb 5, 2013 · Professor of microbiology and a founding member of the University’s Institute for Genomic Biology, Carl Woese was a giant among scientists. Best known for his discovery of Archaea, a third domain of life, his wider work and theories have transformed scientific thinking about the very origins of life and the nature of evolution.
Carl Woese was an American biophysicist and microbiologist who revolutionised evolutionary biology. In 1977, he uncovered the ‘third domain of life’. He achieved this by defining Archaea (a group of single-cell prokaryotic organisms) – by phylogenetic taxonomy of 16S ribosomal RNA, a technique pioneered by him.
Apr 5, 2013 · This article is a tribute to Carl R. Woese, a biophysicist turned evolutionary microbiologist who passed away on December 30, 2012. We focus on his life, achievements, the discovery of Archaea and contributions to the development of molecular phylogeny.
Aug 15, 2024 · Biophysicist and evolutionary microbiologist Carl R. Woese died December 30 following complications from pancreatic cancer. He was 84.
Jul 31, 2018 · Centre stage in Quammen’s narrative is Carl Woese (1928–2012), the US microbiologist best known as the discoverer of the Archaea (Archaebacteria) — the ‘third domain’ of life.
