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, ...

Carl R. Woese, 84, a scientist at the University of Illinois who provided a new way of classifying living things that offered insight into the process of evolution, died of pancreatic cancer Dec. 30 ...

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 ...

Family members, colleagues and friends of the revolutionary professor, Carl R. Woese, gathered at his memorial Saturday. Woese is renowned for his discovery of archaea, the third domain of life, and ...

Carl Woese's method for organizing life is a departure from Carl Linnaeus' nearly 300-year-old system. * Image: Science Magazine * Some of the greatest moments in the history of biology slip from the ...

Famed microbiologist Carl Woese has a unique suggestion for teaching evolution to schoolchildren: don't do it. I recently talked to Woese, best known for rearranging the organismal kingdom from five ...

"Carl was single-minded in his pursuit of the big tree" of life, added Norman Pace, a distinguished professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology at the University of Colorado at Boulder ...

[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 ...

For the better part of this century, microbiologists have largely ignored evolutionary relationships among bacteria. But a revolution has occurred in microbiology with the advent of nucleic sequencing ...

On Monday, a proposal to rename the University of Illinois Institute for Genomic Biology after a renowned and longtime university scientist received a green light from the Senate Executive Committee.

URBANA – University of Illinois microbiology and Institute for Genomic Biology professor Carl R. Woese, who adopted a molecular approach to classifying organisms and upended taxonomy with the ...

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 ...