Woese was born in Syracuse, New York on July 15, 1928. His family was German American. Woese attended Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts. He received a bachelor's degree in …

Carl Woese was an American microbiologist who discovered the group of single-cell prokaryotic organisms known as archaea, which constitute a third domain of life.

Carl Woese was a professor of microbiology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a faculty member of the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology.

Apr 30, 2018 · Woese originally set out with the highly ambitious goal of discovering if all life on Earth had evolved from a single common ancestor. His research indicated to him that there …

Jul 29, 2025 · Carl Woese, an American microbiologist, altered our understanding of life’s organization. Beginning in the 1970s, his work introduced a new way to classify organisms …

Woese and his colleagues determined that prokaryotes were actually made up of two different groups of organisms – true bacteria and Archaea, with Archaea more closely related to …

Dec 17, 2025 · Dr. Woese was the author or co-author of 191 papers in molecular biology and biophysics. He received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 1984, the Leeuwenhoek Medal …

Jan 30, 2013 · Woese, who died on 30 December, was born in Syracuse in New York in 1928. His undergraduate education was in physics and mathematics at Amherst College in Massachusetts.

Apr 30, 2014 · Carl Woese pioneered the use of gene sequencing, discovered a third domain of life, and upended an entire field.

Carl Woese was a pioneering microbiologist who revolutionized the understanding of the tree of life by discovering a third domain of life, the Archaea, distinct from Bacteria and Eukarya.