• Find People
  • Campus Map
  • PiratePort
  • A-Z
    • About
    • Submit
    • Browse
    • Login
    View Item 
    •   ScholarShip Home
    • ECU Main Campus
    • Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences
    • Biology
    • View Item
    •   ScholarShip Home
    • ECU Main Campus
    • Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences
    • Biology
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

    Browse

    All of The ScholarShipCommunities & CollectionsDateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsTypeDate SubmittedThis CollectionDateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsTypeDate Submitted

    My Account

    Login

    Statistics

    View Google Analytics Statistics

    Carl Woese, Dick Young, and the roots of astrobiology

    Thumbnail
    View/ Open
    rna-11-207.PMC4008550.pdf (384.2Kb)

    Show full item record
    Author
    Rummel, John D
    Abstract
    The beginning of the space age in the late 1950s gave rise to innovative and interdisciplinary research concepts and perspectives, including the concept of “exobiology” as a way to approach the fundamental aspects of biology through a study of life outside of the Earth, if it existed. This concept was embodied by NASA into its formal Exobiology Program and into the philosophy of the program both before and after the Viking missions that were launched to Mars to search for signs of life in 1975. Due to both management flexibility and an acceptance of the interdisciplinary nature of the problem of “life in the universe,” NASA program managers, and particularly Richard S Young who ran the Exobiology Program beginning 1967, have made some excellent investments in paradigm altering science of great use both on Earth and on future space missions. The work of Carl Woese is one such example, which has revolutionized our understanding of the microbial world and the relationships of all life on Earth.
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10342/5443
    Subject
     exobiology; NASA; Lederberg; life in the universe; Viking missions 
    Date
    2014-03
    Citation:
    APA:
    Rummel, John D. (March 2014). Carl Woese, Dick Young, and the roots of astrobiology. RNA Biology, 11(3), 207- 209. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10342/5443

    Display/Hide MLA, Chicago and APA citation formats.

    MLA:
    Rummel, John D. "Carl Woese, Dick Young, and the roots of astrobiology". RNA Biology. 11:3. (207-209), March 2014. September 29, 2023. http://hdl.handle.net/10342/5443.
    Chicago:
    Rummel, John D, "Carl Woese, Dick Young, and the roots of astrobiology," RNA Biology 11, no. 3 (March 2014), http://hdl.handle.net/10342/5443 (accessed September 29, 2023).
    AMA:
    Rummel, John D. Carl Woese, Dick Young, and the roots of astrobiology. RNA Biology. March 2014; 11(3): 207-209. http://hdl.handle.net/10342/5443. Accessed September 29, 2023.
    Collections
    • Biology

    xmlui.ArtifactBrowser.ItemViewer.elsevier_entitlement

    East Carolina University has created ScholarShip, a digital archive for the scholarly output of the ECU community.

    • About
    • Contact Us
    • Send Feedback