Before Carl R. Woese, science divided the living world into two types of organisms: bacteria and everything else. But the University of Illinois professor and colleagues in the 1970s discovered that ...

Carl Woese at a lightboard in 1976. Kristen Wilson Kristen Wilson Carl Woese at a lightboard in 1976. From the middle of the 18th century to the 1970s, it was believed there were two “domains” that ...

In 2003, when Mr. Woese was awarded the prestigious Crafoord Prize by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, he told The News-Gazette that the real importance of his discovery was the door it opened ...

University of Illinois microbiology and Institute for Genomic Biology professor Carl R. Woese was hailed by colleagues as one of the great evolutionary biologists of the 20th century, a scientist who ...

Carl Woese, a former Microbiology professor who passed away in December 2012, is being honored for his influential discovery on a new domain of life. The Institute of Genomic Biology, IGB, will be ...