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Carl Woese
Carl Richard Woese
(; July 15, 1928 – December 30, 2012) was an American
microbiologist
and
biophysicist
. Woese is famous for defining the
Archaea
(a new
domain
or
kingdom
of life) in 1977 by
phylogenetic
taxonomy
of
16S ribosomal RNA
, a technique pioneered by Woese which revolutionized the discipline of microbiology. He was also the originator of the
RNA world hypothesis
in 1967, although not by that name. He held the Stanley O. Ikenberry Chair and was professor of microbiology at the
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
.
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