Three Americans — Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young — won the 2017 Nobel Prize in physiology for shedding light on how an "inner clock" can fluctuate to optimize human behavior and physiology. BREAKING NEWS The 2017 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young. This year's winners probably weren't in a lot of Nobel Prize betting pools, because the medicine Nobel is notoriously hard to predict. The Nobel Prize in physics will be announced on Tuesday, the chemistry award on Wednesday, and the peace prize on Friday. 2016: Nobel Prize in medicine awarded to Japan’s Yoshinori Ohsumi for work on ‘cell recycling’

Source: Washington Post October 02, 2017 09:42 UTC