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Carl Woese (/ ˈ w oʊ z /; 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.
archaea. 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. Woese attended Amherst College in Massachusetts, where he received a bachelor’s ...
Apr 30, 2014 · Carl Woese was a microbiologist who used DNA sequencing to create a new classification system for all life on Earth. He challenged the traditional five-kingdom model and discovered the third domain of life: archaea.
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Jan 30, 2013 · Woese, who died on 30 December, was born in Syracuse in New York in 1928. His undergraduate education was in physics and mathematics at Amherst College in Massachusetts. In 1953, he earned a PhD ...
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About Dr. Woese. 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.
Sep 16, 2013 · The discovery of a deep phylogenetic split within the prokaryotes by Carl Woese and George Fox at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, in 1977 marked a major transition in the ...
Jan 1, 2013 · Carl Richard Woese was born July 15, 1928, in Syracuse. He earned bachelor’s degrees in math and physics from Amherst College in 1950 and a Ph.D. in biophysics at Yale in 1953.
