WOESE, Carl Richard (1928 – 2012)
1928 – 2012
2 entries in the GMN corpus.
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1977 CE
#12300
Phylogenetic structure of the prokaryotic domain: The primary kingdoms.
(Order of authorship in the original publication: Woese, Fox.) Woese and Fox discovered a "third kingdom" in microbial life that they called "archaebacteria" (Archaea) as distinct from bacteria and eukaryotes. In thei…
1990 CE
#12301
Towards a natural system of organisms: Proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya.
(Order of authorship in the original publication: Woese, Kandler, Wheelis.) Introduction of the three-domain biological classification system that divides cellular life into three forms or domains: Archaea, Bacteria, …