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Jeffrey Hall
October 2, 2017
UW alumnus Jeffrey C. Hall awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute has awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Jeffrey C. Hall — an alumnus of the University of Washington — along with Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young “for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm,” according to an announcement Monday morning.