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Carl Woese. Carl Woese ( / ˈwoʊz /; [3] 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 Sanger.
- Harry Noller
- harry@nuvolari.ucsc.edu
- 2013
Apr 30, 2014 · The result was distinct bands of different lengths of RNA. Woese and Fox then exposed each gel to photographic paper over several days. The radioactive bands in the gel transferred marks to the paper.
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Mar 1, 2014 · Carl Woese is most famous as the founder of molecular phylogenetics, the creator of the ribosomal Tree of Life, and the discoverer of the Archaea. 1-3 These are indeed some of the defining events in biology over the last half-century. But Woese’s legacy goes far beyond these indisputable feats and encompasses the deepest questions of ...
- Eugene V Koonin
- 10.4161/rna.27673
- 2014
- RNA Biol. 2014 Mar 1; 11(3): 197-204.
Feb 8, 2013 · Carl Woese was born in 1928 in Syracuse, New York. He studied mathematics and physics as an undergraduate at Amherst College in Massachusetts, and earned a Ph.D. in biophysics at Yale University in 1953. Being interested in phylogeny, he took considerable pride in his own heritage in physics. His Ph.D. mentor, the biophysicist Ernest Pollard ...
Apr 2, 2014 · A few years before I started my graduate studies, Carl Woese was establishing a collaboration with his friend, colleague, and my PhD advisor, Harry Noller. Carl was introducing comparative methods to Harry’s lab to determine the secondary structure for the 16S and 23S rRNAs. In addition to an experimental project that had minimal to no ...
Sep 16, 2013 · a–c | Carl Woese, photographed by Patrick Forterre at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.a | Carl Woese looking through the original stored films of rRNA oligonucleotide ...
