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