# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/carl-woese
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:05:43.042Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/carl-woese"
name: "Carl Woese"
slug: "carl-woese"
description: "Carl Richard Woese was an American microbiologist and biophysicist. Woese is famous for defining the Archaea in 1977 through a pioneering phylogenetic taxonomy of 16S ribosomal RNA, a technique that has revolutionized microbiology. He also originated the RNA world hypothesis in 1967, although not by that name. Woese held the Stanley O. Ikenberry Chair and was professor of microbiology at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign."
tagline: "American microbiologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Carl_Woese.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1928-07-15"
deathDate: "2012-12-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           21.75066
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump