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A Short Biography of Carl Woese

Author Name:

Carl Woese

Born As:

Carl Richard Woese

Other Names:

Born:

15 Jul 1928

Died:

30 Dec 2012




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Microbiologist,  Biophysicist and Atheist                          
Selected Works:

Book:

The Genetic Code: the Molecular basis for Genetic Expression. New York: Harper & Row - 

Articles:

Phylogenetic structure of the prokaryotic domain: the primary kingdoms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - Woese, Carl R.; George E. Fox - 1977
"Bacterial evolution". Microbiological Reviews - 1987
"Towards a natural system of organisms: proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - Woese, Carl R.; O Kandler, M L Wheelis - 1990
"A New Biology for a New Century". Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews - 2004
 "Evolving biological organization". In Jan Sapp, editor. Microbial Phylogeny and Evolution:Concepts and Controversies: Concepts and Controversies. Oxford University Press - 2005
"How We Do, Don't and Should Look at Bacteria and Bacteriology". The Prokaryotes -  - 2006
"How the Microbial World Saved Evolution from the Scylla of Molecular Biology and the Charybdis of the Modern Synthesis". Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews - Woese, Carl R.; Nigel Goldenfeld - 2009                          
                          
Defined the Archaea, a new domain or kingdom of life, by phylogenetic taxonomy of 16S ribosomal RNA - 1977

Originator of the RNA world hypothesis - 1977

Held the Stanley O. Ikenberry Chair 
Professor of Microbiology at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

Elected into NAS, the National Academy of Sciences -  1988

Leeuwenhoek Medal - 1992
Selman A. Waksman Award - 1995
National Medal of Science - 2000
Crafoord Prize - 2003.                          
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