Carl Woese
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Carl Richard Woese (born July 15 1928, Syracuse, New York) is an American microbiologist who attended Deerfield Academy and Amherst College. He 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 and which is now standard practice. He was also the originator of the RNA world hypothesis in 1967, although not by that name. He currently holds the Stanley O. Ikenberry Chair and is Professor of...
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