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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.
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.
Jan 30, 2013 · Carl Woese brought a fiercely creative mind, seasoned with rigour, to the biggest questions in biology.
Apr 30, 2014 · Carl Woese was a microbiologist who used DNA sequencing to create a new classification system for all life on Earth. He challenged the traditional five-kingdom model and discovered the third domain of life: archaea.
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.
Aug 13, 2018 · A photograph showed a man named Carl R. Woese, a microbiologist at the University of Illinois in Urbana, with his feet up on his office desk. He was 50ish, with unruly hair, wearing a sport...
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 ...
