Thomas Perlmann, Secretary of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, announces the names of Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young as winners of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine during a press conference at the Nobel Forum in Stockholm, Sweden October 2, 2017. TT News Agency/Jonas Estromer via REUTERS
STOCKHOLM/LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. scientists Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael Young won the 2017 Nobel prize for medicine on Monday for unravelling molecular mechanisms that control our internal body clocks.
These help explain how people experience jet lag when their internal circadian rhythms get out of sync, while also having wider implications for disorders ranging from insomnia to depression to heart disease.
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