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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.
Apr 26, 2024 · 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.
Jan 30, 2013 · Carl Woese brought a fiercely creative mind, seasoned with rigour, to the biggest questions in biology.
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.
Sep 16, 2013 · 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.
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.
Apr 5, 2013 · Similarly, Prof. Carl Richard Woese (popularly known as Woese) was a biophysicist by training, but the fascination for microbes and his passionate desire to explore these hidden heroes of nature made him a pioneer in evolutionary microbiology [53, 57, 58]. Woese was born on 15th July 1928 in Syracuse, New York, USA.
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.
