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Carl Woese 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 degree in mathematics and physics in 1950.
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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.
Jan 30, 2013 · Woese began sequencing fragments of 16S ribosomal RNA from every microorganism that he could get his hands on, using RNA 'fingerprinting' — a method developed by British biochemist Fred...
- Harry Noller
- harry@nuvolari.ucsc.edu
- 2013
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 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.
- Om Prakash, Kamlesh Jangid, Yogesh S. Shouche
- 2013
Aug 13, 2018 · A photograph showed a man named Carl R. Woese, a microbiologist at the University of Illinois in Urbana, with his feet up on his office desk.
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.
