Friedrich Stephan

Dr. Friedrich Karl Stephan (born 27 May 1941) is an American academic who is a circadian physiologist. He is the Curt P. Richter Distinguished Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience at Florida State University. His research focuses on localization and function of biological clocks in vertebrates, light and food as entraining signals for circadian rhythms, obesity,[1] sleep, and reproduction.[2] He is credited as the discoverer of the suprachiasmatic nucleus ("body clock").[3]

Friedrich Stephan
Born(1941-05-27)May 27, 1941
Scientific career
FieldsCircadian physiology

References

  1. "The Body Might Have Built-In Dinner-Bell, Studies Hint". Miami Herald, Oct. 6, 1992.
  2. Cassone, Vincent (2005). "The Clock that Tells the Time". Nature Neuroscience. Nature. 8 (1): 1165. doi:10.1038/nn0105-3.
  3. Foster, Russell G.; Kreitzman, Leon (2005). Rhythms of Life: The Biological Clocks that Control the Daily Lives of Every Living Thing. Yale University Press. p. 88. ISBN 978-0-300-10969-6.



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