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Michael Rosbash

1944 - Today

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Michael Morris Rosbash (born March 7, 1944) is an American geneticist and chronobiologist. Rosbash is a professor and researcher at Brandeis University and investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Rosbash's research group cloned the Drosophila period gene in 1984 and proposed the Transcription Translation Negative Feedback Loop for circadian clocks in 1990. In 1998, they discovered the cycle gene, clock gene, and cryptochrome photoreceptor in Drosophila through the use of forward genetics, by first identifying the phenotype of a mutant and then determining the genetics behind the mutation. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Michael Rosbash is the 287th most popular biologist (down from 257th in 2019), the 2,589th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,371st in 2019) and the 51st most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Michael Rosbash ranks 287 out of 1,097. Before him are Johann Hermann, Hideyo Noguchi, André Marie Constant Duméril, Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti, John Gould, and René Louiche Desfontaines. After him are Michael W. Young, Odoardo Beccari, Johann Jakob von Tschudi, Lorenz Oken, Otto Brunfels, and Jean Cabanis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Michael Rosbash ranks 188. Before him are Chung Hong-won, Yoshio Kikugawa, Ayad Allawi, John Entwistle, Carlos Pace, and Candy Darling. After him are David Trimble, Gianfranco Ferré, Chris Patten, John Newcombe, Muhammad Naji al-Otari, and Sirhan Sirhan.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Michael Rosbash ranks 2,589 out of 20,380. Before him are Jim Lightbody (1882), Edward T. Hall (1914), Ethel Barrymore (1879), Ub Iwerks (1901), Robert Todd Lincoln (1843), and Maggie Hassan (1958). After him are Stockton Rush (1962), Samuel Adams (1722), J. Carrol Naish (1896), Kate Capshaw (1953), Mike Pompeo (1963), and Megan Fox (1986).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Michael Rosbash ranks 51. Before him are Jeffrey C. Hall (1945), Temple Grandin (1947), Stephen Jay Gould (1941), John du Pont (1938), H. Robert Horvitz (1947), and James Rothman (1950). After him are Michael W. Young (1949), Wilbur Scoville (1865), Elmer Drew Merrill (1876), Gerrit Smith Miller (1869), Andrew Fire (1959), and David Baltimore (1938).

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