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D-Index
80
Citations
28598
World Ranking
4020
National Ranking
1987

Overview

Ralph S. Wolfe was a scientist affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their career included research contributions associated with this institution.

Information regarding their specific research papers, frequent co-authors, and publication venues is not available in the provided data.

Details on their main fields of study, subfields, and primary research topics have not been recorded in the available dataset.

No records of book publications or awards received are documented in the information given.

The scientist is noted as deceased. All descriptions are presented accordingly in past tense.

Best Publications

  • Methanogens: reevaluation of a unique biological group.

    W E Balch;G E Fox;L J Magrum;C R Woese

  • Formation of Methane by Bacterial Extracts

    E.A. Wolin;M.J. Wolin;R.S. Wolfe

  • The Phylogeny of Prokaryotes

    GE Fox;E Stackebrandt;RB Hespell;J Gibson

  • Methanobacillus omelianskii, a Symbiotic Association of Two Species of Bacteria*

    M. P. Bryant;E. A. Wolin;M. J. Wolin;R. S. Wolfe

  • Magnetite in Freshwater Magnetotactic Bacteria

    Richard B. Frankel;Richard P. Blakemore;Ralph S. Wolfe

  • Methanococcus jannaschii sp. nov., an extremely thermophilic methanogen from a submarine hydrothermal vent

    W. J. Jones;J. A. Leigh;F. Mayer;C. R. Woese

  • Acetobacterium, a New Genus of Hydrogen-Oxidizing, Carbon Dioxide-Reducing, Anaerobic Bacteria

    William E. Balch;S. Schoberth;Ralph S. Tanner;R. S. Wolfe

  • UNUSUAL COENZYMES OF METHANOGENESIS

    Anthony A. DiMarco;Thomas A. Bobik;Ralph S. Wolfe

  • Classification of methanogenic bacteria by 16S ribosomal RNA characterization.

    George E. Fox;Linda J. Magrum;William E. Balch;Ralph S. Wolfe

  • Preparation of coenzyme M analogues and their activity in the methyl coenzyme M reductase system of Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum.

    Robert P. Gunsalus;James A. Romesser;Ralph S. Wolfe

  • Microbial Formation of Methane

    Wolfe Rs

  • Nutrition and carbon metabolism of Methanococcus voltae.

    W B Whitman;E Ankwanda;R S Wolfe

  • Structure and Methylation of Coenzyme M (HSCH2CH2SO3)

    Craig D. Taylor;Ralph S. Wolfe

  • Isolation and properties of a fluorescent compound, factor 420 , from Methanobacterium strain M.o.H.

    P. Cheeseman;A. Toms-Wood;R. S. Wolfe

  • A genetic system for Archaea of the genus Methanosarcina: Liposome-mediated transformation and construction of shuttle vectors

    William W. Metcalf;Jun Kai Zhang;Ethel Apolinario;Kevin R. Sowers

  • Novel biochemistry of methanogenesis.

    P E Rouvière;R S Wolfe

  • Methanospirillum, a new genus of methanogenic bacteria, and characterization of methanospirillum hungatii sp.nov.

    James G. Ferry;Paul H. Smith;R. S. Wolfe

  • Anaerobic degradation of benzoate to methane by a microbial consortium.

    J. G. Ferry;R. S. Wolfe

  • A new coenzyme of methyl transfer, coenzyme M.

    McBride Bc;Wolfe Rs

  • Specificity and biological distribution of coenzyme M (2-mercaptoethanesulfonic acid).

    W E Balch;R S Wolfe

Frequent Co-Authors

William E. Balch
William E. Balch Scripps Health
Kenneth L. Rinehart
Kenneth L. Rinehart University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
William B. Whitman
William B. Whitman University of Georgia
Carl R. Woese
Carl R. Woese University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
George E. Fox
George E. Fox University of Houston
William W. Metcalf
William W. Metcalf University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Michael F. Summers
Michael F. Summers University of Maryland, Baltimore County
John A. Leigh
John A. Leigh University of Washington
Thomas A. Bobik
Thomas A. Bobik Iowa State University
James G. Ferry
James G. Ferry Pennsylvania State University

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