1910 GREGORY, William King (1897 – 1970)
The orders of mammals. Part 1.- Typical stages in the history of the ordinal classification of mammals. Part II. - Genetic relations of the mammalian orders; with a discussion of the origin of the mammalia and of the problem of the auditory ossicles.
Gregory's PhD dissertation, of particular significance for its exhaustive analysis of prior taxonomic systems for mammalia. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 14044 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16352
1977 WOESE, Carl Richard (1928 – 2012); FOX, George Edward (1945 – )
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…
GMN 12300 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14522
1990 WOESE, Carl Richard (1928 – 2012); KANDLER, Otto (1920 – 2017); WHEELIS, Mark L.
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, …
GMN 12301 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14523
2020 IMACHI, Hiroyuki; NOBU, Masaru K.; NAKAHARA, Nozomi; TAKAI, Ken; ET AL
Isolation of an archeon at the prokaryote eukaryote interface.
(Order of authorship in the original publication: Imachi, Nobu, Nakahara...Takai.) The authors report that after 12 years of research they have cultured a microorganism that may be the transitional species between pro…
GMN 12302 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14524
