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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.
Carl Woese (born July 15, 1928, Syracuse, New York, U.S.—died December 30, 2012, Urbana, Illinois) 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. He...
Jan 30, 2013 · By showing almost single-handedly that living organisms fall into three domains — Bacteria, Eukarya and a previously unknown group called the Archaea — he transformed our understanding of how ...
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 8, 2013 · Carl Woese developed the modern gene sequence–based understanding of biological organization, showing that the evolutionary history of lineages can be tracked to a common ancestral state. In doing so, he discovered the third domain of life, which came to be known as the archaea.
Aug 13, 2018 · The front page of that day’s New York Times carried a headline: “Scientists Discover a Form of Life That Predates Higher Organisms.”. A photograph showed a man named Carl R. Woese, a ...
