Before Carl R. Woese, science divided the living world into two types of organisms: bacteria and everything else. But the University of Illinois professor and colleagues in the 1970s discovered that ...

Carl Woese (1928 - 2012) was an American microbiologist who discovered the third domain of life, archaea, which are a group of single-cell prokaryotic organisms. Until this discovery, the tree of life ...

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 ...

"Our task now is to resynthesize biology; put the organism back into its environment; connect it again to its evolutionary past; and let us feel that complex flow that is organism, evolution, and ...

NEW YORK — Carl Woese, a biophysicist and evolutionary microbiologist whose discovery 35 years ago of a ‘‘third domain’’ of life in the vast realm of microorganisms altered scientific understanding of ...

Carl Woese, a former Microbiology professor who passed away in December 2012, is being honored for his influential discovery on a new domain of life. The Institute of Genomic Biology, IGB, will be ...

Carl Woese, the University of Illinois microbiology professor credited with the discovery of a "third domain" of life, died Sunday at his home in Urbana. He was 84. In 1977, Mr. Woese and his ...

He speaks with the wisdom of someone approaching 75 years of age, with a knowledge of biology acquired from studying cellular evolution for the past 40, and with the assurance of a scientist who has ...

Before Carl R. Woese, science divided the living world into two types of organisms: bacteria and everything else. But the University of Illinois professor and colleagues in the 1970s discovered that ...

The astrobiology community deeply mourns the loss of Dr. Carl Woese, the University of Illinois microbiology professor credited with the discovery of a “third domain” of life. He died on Sunday, ...