The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2017
Awarded on: 2017-10-02
"for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm"
Affiliations:
- Rockefeller University – New York, NY, USA
Michael W. Young
Born: 1949-03-28 in Miami, FL, USA
Gender: male
Field: American biologist and geneticist (born 1949)
Biography
Michael Warren Young is an American biologist and geneticist. He has dedicated over three decades to research studying genetically controlled patterns of sleep and wakefulness within Drosophila melanogaster.