Carl Woese
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Carl Richard Woese (July 15, 1928 – December 30, 2012) was an American microbiologist and biophysicist.
Woese is best known for defining the Archaea (a new area of life) in 1977 by using phylogenetic taxonomy of 16S ribosomal RNA, which was a technique he pioneered that revolutionized microbiology.
He also invented the RNA world hypothesis in 1967, but not in the way you think of it.
Woese was a professor of microbiology at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and he earned the Stanley O. Ikenberry Chair.
Life and education
Carl Woese was born in Syracuse, New York, on July 15, 1928. Woese attended Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts. He received a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics from Amherst College in 1950. Woese took only one biology course (Biochemistry, in his senior year) and had "no scientific interest in plants and animals" until being encouraged by William M. Fairbank, then an assistant professor of physics at Amherst, to study biophysics at Yale.
He earned a PhD in biophysics at Yale University in 1953, where his doctoral studies concentrated on the inactivation of viruses by heat and ionizing radiation. He worked in medicine at the University of Rochester for two years before dropping two days into a pediatrics rotation. At Yale University, he began working as a postdoctoral biophys researcher looking at bacterial spores. He served as a biophysicist at the GE Research Laboratory in Schenectady, New York, from 1960 to 1963. Woese joined the University of Illinois' microbiology faculty in Urbana-Champaign, where he concentrated on Archaea, genomics, and molecular evolution as his areas of expertise. After his death, he became a professor at the University of Illinois at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology in Urbana-Champaign, which was renamed in his honor in 2015.
Woese died on December 30, 2012, after pancreatic cancer related complications, leaving his wife Gabriella, son, and daughter as survivors.