Editing Carl Woese (section)

==Life and education==
Woese was born in Syracuse, New York on July 15, 1928. His family was [[German American]]. Woese attended [[Deerfield Academy]] in [[Massachusetts]]. He received a bachelor's degree in [[mathematics]] and [[physics]] from [[Amherst College]] in 1950. During his time at Amherst, Woese took only one biology course ([[Biochemistry]], in his senior year) and had "no scientific interest in plants and animals" until advised by [[William M. Fairbank]], then an assistant professor of physics at Amherst, to pursue [[biophysics]] at [[Yale]].<ref name="woese2005qa">{{Cite journal | last1 = Woese | first1 = C. R. | author-link = Carl Woese| title = Q & A | doi = 10.1016/j.cub.2005.02.003 | journal = Current Biology | volume = 15 | issue = 4 | pages = R111–R112 | year = 2005 | pmid =  15723774| s2cid = 45434594 | doi-access = free | bibcode = 2005CBio...15.R111W }}</ref>

In 1953, he completed a [[PhD]] in [[biophysics]] at [[Yale University]], where his doctoral research focused on the inactivation of [[virus]]es by heat and [[ionizing radiation]].<ref name=mcb>{{cite web |url=http://mcb.illinois.edu/faculty/profile/1204 |title=Carl R Woese, Professor of Microbiology |publisher=University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign |access-date=February 16, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100213210457/http://mcb.illinois.edu/faculty/profile/1204 |archive-date=February 13, 2010 |df=mdy }}</ref><ref name="sapp2009"/> He studied medicine at the [[University of Rochester]] for two years.<ref name="sapp2009">{{Cite book
| publisher = Oxford University Press
| isbn = 978-0-199-73438-2
| last = Sapp
| first = Jan A.
| title = The new foundations of evolution: on the tree of life
| location = New York
| year = 2009
}}</ref> Then he became a postdoctoral researcher in biophysics at Yale University investigating bacterial spores.<ref name="woese1960rad">{{Cite journal 
| last1 = Woese | first1 = C. R. 
| author-link1 = Carl Woese
| title = Phage induction in germinating spores of Bacillus megaterium 
| journal = Radiation Research 
| volume = 13 
| issue = 6 
| pages = 871–878 
| year = 1960 
| pmid = 13786177
 | doi=10.2307/3570863
| bibcode = 1960RadR...13..871W| jstor = 3570863 
}}</ref> From 1960 to 1963, he worked as a biophysicist at the [[General Electric Research Laboratory]] in [[Schenectady, New York]].<ref name=mcb /><ref name=newsgazette>{{cite web
|url=http://www.news-gazette.com/news/university-illinois/2012-12-30/visionary-ui-biologist-carl-woese-84-dies.html
|title=Visionary UI biologist Carl Woese, 84, dies
|access-date=2012-12-31
|work=The News-Gazette: Serving East Central Illinois
|date=2012-12-30
|archive-date=February 16, 2013
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130216170841/http://www.news-gazette.com/news/university-illinois/2012-12-30/visionary-ui-biologist-carl-woese-84-dies.html
|url-status=dead
}}</ref> In 1964, Woese joined the microbiology faculty of the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, where he focused on Archaea, genomics, and [[molecular evolution]] as his areas of expertise.<ref name="uofi2006"/><ref name=mcb /><ref name=newsgazette /> He became a professor at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign's [[Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology]], which was renamed in his honor in 2015, after his death.<ref name=newsgazette />

Woese died on December 30, 2012, following complications from [[pancreatic cancer]], leaving as survivors his wife Gabriella and a son and daughter.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/carl-woese-dies-evolutionary-biologist-was-84/2013/01/19/a91a051c-61e9-11e2-b05a-605528f6b712_story.html |title=Carl Woese dies; evolutionary biologist was 84 |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=2013-01-19 |accessdate=2022-02-16}}</ref><ref name="uofiigb2012">{{cite web
 |url         = http://www.igb.illinois.edu/news/carl-r-woese-1928-%E2%80%93-2012
 |title       = Carl R. Woese: 1928 – 2012
 |access-date  = 2012-12-30
 |work        = News, The Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign
 |date        = 2012-12-30
 |url-status     = dead
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20130102225304/http://www.igb.illinois.edu/news/carl-r-woese-1928-%E2%80%93-2012
 |archive-date = January 2, 2013
 |df          = mdy-all
}}</ref><ref name=nytobit>{{cite news |title=Carl Woese Dies at 84. Discovered Life's 'Third Domain' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/01/science/carl-woese-dies-discovered-lifes-third-domain.html |quote=Carl Woese, a biophysicist and evolutionary microbiologist whose discovery 35 years ago of a “third domain” of life in the vast realm of micro-organisms altered scientific understanding of evolution, died on Sunday at his home in Urbana, Ill. He was 84. ... |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=December 31, 2012 |access-date=2013-01-04 }}</ref>