I am researching Carl Woese who probably is the greatest microbiologist of the 20th century you’ve never heard of. He was a physicist turned microbiologist who rewrote the entire tree of life.
Carl Woese was born July 15,1928 in Syracuse, New York to Carl.F.Woese and Gertrude Nadler. He went to Amherst College and Yale University which was where he started Biophysics and Microbiology because he was encouraged by William. Fairbank one of his mentors.
Next his Works and Discoveries. In 1977 he and colleague George Fox discovered the third domain, Archaea. He believed that bacteria would transfer themselves into prokaryotes. In 1996 he and his colleagues published the first genome or set of genes of an Archaea. He deduced a table between ribonucleic acid (RNA) and deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA).
Finally, Family Life and Awards. He married Gabriella Haws and they had two children Gabriella and Robert. He was awarded a Macarthur Fellowship the Leeuwenhoek Prize (like the Nobel prize for microbiology which is handed out once a decade) the Crafoord Prize and the U.S Medal for Science.
I chose Carl Woese for the Bistro because he was a microbiologist which I might want to be when I grow up. Without him we still wouldn't understand much about life itself.
Bibliography
Doc, The. “Home.” Famous Scientists, 2018, www.famousscientists.org/.. QUAMMEN, DAVID. TANGLED TREE: a Radical New History of Life. SIMON & SCHUSTER, 2019. “Carl Woese.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 12 Mar. 2019, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Woese.
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