Michael W. Young

Michael W. Young

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2017

The Rockefeller University

“for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm”

Michael W. Young is an American geneticist and chronobiologist. He shared the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Jeffrey C. Hall and Michael Rosbash for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm. He was affiliated with Rockefeller University.

Field
Biology · Chronobiology
Lifespan
1949–