This page is a work in progress. It represents an attempt to identify people of interest in the history of biological rhythms studies and gather basic information about them. If you do not have editing privileges but would like to suggest changes or additions to this page, please contact Maggie hofiu002@umn.edu. Click on the "create new page" button. In the “name your page” field, insert person’s name. Under “select a template to use,” choose “people info.” Under “select a location,” choose “put page under People.” Return to "People" page. Click on the "add item" button above the list. In the names field choose “select existing page” and locate the person’s page you created. In the “display text” field, please insert person’s name as follows: last name, first name. In the "Relationships" column add information about who they worked with or how they are related to other key people. We have also started a relationship map which is located here: https://docs.google.com/drawings/edit?id=12p9Jwd7PbRkhavgK2yGrVtMEVqS1iqZrsQA2YzLpCJI |
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Allard, H.A. | 1880-1963 | United States Department of Agriculture | naturalist | W.W. Garner | |
Aschoff, Jürgen | 1913-1998 | behavioral physiology | Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology | Rütger Wever | |
Axelrod, Julius | 1912-2004 | pharmacology, neurochemistry | |||
Barinaga, Marcia | Science Magazine | journalist for Science Magazine | |||
Barnwell, Frank | b. 1937 | ecology, evolution, and behavior | University of Minnesota | ||
Bittner, John | 1904-1961 | virology, cancer research | University of Minnesota | ||
Brown, Frank A., Jr. | 1934-1983 | Physiology | Northwestern University | ||
Bünning, Erwin | 1906-1990 | botany and plant physiology | University of Tübingen | ||
Chandrashekaran, M.K. | 1937-2009 | chronobiology, zoology | Madurai University | Professor | |
Chizhevskii, Aleksandr Leonidovich | 1897-1964 | heliobiology | |||
Cloudsley-Thompson, J.L. | b. 1921 | zoology, desert ecology | University of Khartoum | ||
Cooley, Denton | |||||
Cornelissen, Germaine | b. 1949 | University of Minnesota | |||
Czeisler, Charles A. | sleep medicine | Harvard University | |||
Daan, Serge | b. 1940 | University of Groningen | |||
DeCoursey, Patricia | University of South Carolina | Professor, Department of Biological Sciences | |||
Dement, William C. | b. 1928 | sleep deprivation and disorders | Stanford University | Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences | Advisee of Nathaniel Kleitman, advisor of Charles Czeisler |
Dunlap, Jay | molecular basis of circadian rhythms | Dartmouth University | |||
Folk, G. Edgar | b. 1914 | hibernation, cold weather physiology | University of Iowa | Professor of Molecular Physiology | |
Garner, W.W. | 1875-1956 | H.A. Allard | |||
Gooch, Van | circadian rhythms, neurospora research | University of Minnesota-Morris | |||
Gwinner, Eberhard | 1938-2004 | Max Planck Institute for Ornithology | Gustav Kramer, Jürgen Aschoff | ||
Halberg, Franz | b. 1919 | laboratory medicine and pathology, physiology, biology, bioengineering and oral medicine | University of Minnesota | ||
Hastings, J. Woodland | b. 1927 | molecular and cellular biology | Harvard University: Hastings Lab | ||
John Pauly | |||||
Kay, Steven A. | genetics and circadian rhythms | University of San Diego (UCSD) | |||
Kleitman, Nathaniel | 1895-1999 | sleep studies | University of Chicago | William Dement | |
Koukkari, Willard | plant biology | University of Minnesota | |||
Kramer, Gustav | 1910-1959 | Max Planck Institute | |||
Kripke, Daniel | sleep apnea, depression | University of California, San Diego | |||
Lewy, Alfred | |||||
Menaker, Michael | circadian biology | University of Virginia | |||
Moore, Robert Y. | b. 1931 | neurology | University of Pittsburgh | ||
Muller, James | cardiology | Harvard University | Physician | ||
Palmer, John | b. 1932 | circalunidian rhythms in marine organisms | Woods Hole Laboratory | ||
Park, Orlando | 1901-1969 | entomology, ecology | Northwestern University | Professor | |
Pauly, John | |||||
Pfeffer, Wilhelm | 1845-1920 | botany | |||
Pittendrigh, Colin | 1918-1996 | Stanford University, previously at Princeton | |||
Ragotzkie, Robert | biometeorology | University of Wisconsin | |||
Regal, Phil | ecology, evolution and behavior | University of Minnesota | |||
Reinberg, Alain | started in endocrinology | Paris? | Physician | ||
Reiter, Russell | pineal gland, melatonin | University of Texas, San Antonio | Physician | ||
Richter, Curt | 1894-1988 | psychobiology | Johns Hopkins | ||
Sargent, Fred | 1920-1980 | ecology, enviornmental quality | University of Texas | Physician, nutritionist | |
Scheving, Lawrence | |||||
Schmitt, Otto | 1913-1998 | biophysics and bioengineering | University of Minnesota | ||
Smolensky, Michael | b. 1942 | physiology | University of Texas Medical Branch Houston | ||
Sollberger, Arne | |||||
Sothern, Robert B. | University of Minnesota | ||||
Stern, Kurt | Erwin Bünning, Rose Stoppel | ||||
Stoppel, Rose | 1874-1970 | botany | University of Hamburg | Professor | Erwin Bünning, Kurt Stern |
Sweeney, Beatrice | 1914-1989 | plant physiology, marine biology | UC, Santa Barbara | ||
Takahashi, Joseph S. | b. 1951 | circadian rhythms | University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center | ||
Turek, Fred | Northwestern University | ||||
Visscher, Maurice | 1901-1983 | physiology | University of Minnesota | Franz Halberg, John Bittner | |
von Frisch, Karl | 1886-1982 | zoology | |||
Wehr, Thomas | b. 1941 | psychiatry | National Institute of Mental Health | ||
Wever, Rütger | d. 2010 | Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology | Jürgen Aschoff | ||
Wirz-Justice, Anna | psychiatric neurobiology | University of Basel |
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