In 1964, the microbiologist was driving out West when he stopped to visit Yellowstone National Park ... Brock named it Thermus aquaticus. The discovery of this hardy bacteria revolutionized ...

In the summer of 1964, Brock was driving cross-country and stopped at Yellowstone. “I’d never seen a hot spring before,” he recalls. He asked a park ranger how much was known about the ...

And so, hoping to cash in on its natural resources, the National Park Service ... success. Thermus aquaticus discoverer Brock, is philosophical about the whole thing. “Yellowstone didn’t ...

The single-celled microbe, now known, fittingly, as Thermus aquaticus, has since become an essential ... made without studies directly in the natural environment in Yellowstone National Park,” Brock ...

The wonderland known as Yellowstone National Park has yielded a new ... living in the same hot springs where the microbe Thermus aquaticus had been found previously. T. aquaticus was crucial ...

In 1966, he found heat-resistant bacteria in a hot spring at Yellowstone National Park ... a species of bacteria that he called Thermus aquaticus, which thrived at 70 degrees Celsius (158 degrees ...

The photograph above, which I took on my recent trip to Yellowstone National Park, shows Morning Glory Pool ... He isolated a bacterium, which he called Thermus aquaticus (PDF), that optimally grew at ...

The Grand Prismatic Spring is the most recognizable thermal feature of Yellowstone National Park ... discoveries was a microorganism called Thermus aquaticus. Thermus aquaticus was isolated ...

DNA sequencing was revolutionized after scientists discovered a new bacterium in the hot springs of Yellowstone National Park ...

In 1964, the microbiologist was driving out West when he stopped to visit Yellowstone National Park ... Brock named it Thermus aquaticus. The discovery of this hardy bacteria revolutionized ...