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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.
Apr 26, 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 microscopic.
Jan 30, 2013 · Carl Woese brought a fiercely creative mind, seasoned with rigour, to the biggest questions in biology. By showing almost single-handedly that living organisms fall into three domains — Bacteria,...
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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...
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Jan 1, 2013 · Carl Woese, a biophysicist and evolutionary microbiologist whose discovery 35 years ago of a “third domain” of life in the vast realm of micro-organisms altered scientific understanding of...
