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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 · Carl Woese brought a fiercely creative mind, seasoned with rigour, to the biggest questions in biology.
Carl Woese (born July 15, 1928, Syracuse, New York, U.S.—died December 30, 2012, Urbana, Illinois) was an American microbiologist who discovered the group of single-cell prokaryotic organisms known as archaea, which constitute a third domain of life.
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.
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.
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.
Mar 1, 2014 · In a series of conceptual articles published around the millennium, Carl Woese emphasized that evolution of cells is the central problem of evolutionary biology, that the three-domain ribosomal tree of life is an essential framework for reconstructing cellular evolution, and that the evolutionary dynamics of functionally distinct cellular ...
Aug 13, 2018 · Carl Woese, as his research career ended, assumed his new role as a much-honored but cranky elder, with strong opinions. He collected kudos, and he wrote.
Jan 1, 2013 · Carl Woese, a biophysicist and evolutionary microbiologist whose discovery 35 years ago of a “third domain” of life in the vast realm of micro-organisms altered scientific understanding of...
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.
