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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.
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.
Jan 1, 2013 · Steve Kagan. By William Yardley. Dec. 31, 2012. Carl Woese, a biophysicist and evolutionary microbiologist whose discovery 35 years ago of a “third domain” of life in the vast realm of micro ...
Sep 16, 2013 · Nature Reviews Microbiology - In this Essay, Alberset al. discuss the remarkable achievements of two leaders of the archaeal research field: the late Carl Woese and the late Wolfram Zillig....
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 ...
