[Kang Seok-gi's Science Cafe 112] His discovery of archaea rebuilt the entire system of classification. (Woese's) 1977 paper is one of the most important not just in microbiology, but in all of ...

University of Illinois microbiology and Institute for Genomic Biology professor Carl R. Woese was hailed by colleagues as one of the great evolutionary biologists of the 20th century, a scientist who ...

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 evolution, ...