Michael Rosbash ( born Michael Morris Rosbash ; born March 7, 1944 , Kansas City , Missouri , USA ) is an American geneticist , Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2017) for his discoveries of molecular mechanisms that control circadian rhythm (together with Jeffrey Hall and Michael Young ) [3] .
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Biography
Born into a family of Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany [4] who arrived in the USA in 1938; father Alfred Rosbash (1912-1954) was a synagogue cantor . In 1946, the family moved to Boston ( Newton ), where his father received the position of cantor of the Brooklyn synagogue [5] . Mother, Hilde Rosbach (1914-2008), was engaged in scientific research in the field of clinical .
As a student, he attended lectures in biology at the California Institute of Technology and worked in the laboratory of . He graduated from the California Institute of Technology with a specialization in chemistry in 1965, and in 1970 the Department of Biophysics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology .
After a three-year postdoctoral program in genetics at the University of Edinburgh, he was hired by Brandeis University (1974), where he still works.
Awards and recognition
- 1988 - Guggenheim Scholarship [6]
- 2003 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
- 2009 - Gruber Award
- 2011 - Louise Gross Horvitz Award
- 2012 - Massey Award
- 2012 - International Gaidner Award
- 2013 - Shao Award
- 2013 - Wiley Award
- 2017 - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Family
Wife and co-author - Nadja Abovich ( Eng. Nadja Abovich ), geneticist; two daughters - Paula (receptionist, social worker) and Tanya (financial analyst).