Carl Woese

Biologist

Birthday July 15, 1928

Birth Sign Cancer

Birthplace Syracuse, NY

DEATH DATE Dec 30, 2012 (84)

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About

Microbiologist famous for defining and classifying the domain known as the Archaea kingdom. He was also the originator of the RNA world hypothesis, which proposes that self-replicating ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules were precursors to current life, in 1977.

Before Fame

He received a Ph.D in biophysics from Yale University in 1953.

Trivia

He became a MacArthur Fellow in 1984 and he was invited to be a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1988.

Family Life

He had two children with his wife Gabriella.

Associated With

Like James Watson he studied genetic code.