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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, who died on 30 December, was born in Syracuse in New York in 1928. His undergraduate education was in physics and mathematics at Amherst College in Massachusetts. In 1953, he earned a PhD ...
Apr 26, 2024 · 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.
Apr 30, 2014 · Carl Woese may be the greatest scientist you’ve never heard of. “Woese is to biology what Einstein is to physics,” says Norman Pace, a microbiologist at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
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 ...
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 ...
