UT alumnus Michael W. Young won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for research into how plants, animals and humans synchronize their biological clocks with the Earth’s rotation.

UT alumnus Michael W. Young won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for research into how plants, animals and humans synchronize their biological clocks with the Earth’s rotation.

2017: Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young "for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm." ... 1915: No Nobel Prize awarded.