Carl Woese
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 13 years ago |
| Date of birth | July 15,1928 |
| Zodiac sign | Cancer |
| Born | Syracuse |
| New York | |
| United States | |
| Date of died | December 30,2012 |
| Died | Urbana |
| Illinois | |
| United States | |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse | Gabriella Woese |
| Known for | Archaeans |
| Archaea | |
| Books | Progress in Molecular and Subcellular Biology |
| The Origin of Life | |
| Job | Microbiologist |
| Molecular Biologist | |
| Awards | Leeuwenhoek Medal |
| National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences | |
| Selman A. Waksman Award in Microbiology | |
| Crafoord Prize in Biosciences | |
| MacArthur Fellowship | |
| Field | Microbiology |
| Parents | Gertrude Nadler Woese |
| Carl Frank | |
| Alma mater | Amherst College |
| Yale University | |
| Institut | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign |
| Education | Yale University |
| Amherst College | |
| Deerfield Academy | |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 524109 |
Carl Woese Life story
Carl Richard Woese was an American microbiologist and biophysicist. Woese is famous for defining the Archaea in 1977 through a pioneering phylogenetic taxonomy of 16S ribosomal RNA, a technique that has revolutionized microbiology. He also originated the RNA world hypothesis in 1967, although not by that name.