Friedrich Stephan

Friedrich Stephan
Friedrich Stephan
Born	May 27, 1941
	Scientific career
Fields	Circadian physiology

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]

External links

Florida State University faculty profile

References

"The Body Might Have Built-In Dinner-Bell, Studies Hint". Miami Herald, Oct. 6, 1992.
Cassone, Vincent (2005). "The Clock that Tells the Time". Nature Neuroscience. Nature. 8 (1): 1165. doi:10.1038/nn0105-3.
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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[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.