# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/colin-pittendrigh
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:21:37.502Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/colin-pittendrigh"
name: "Colin Pittendrigh"
slug: "colin-pittendrigh"
description: "Colin Stephenson Pittendrigh was a British-born biologist who spent most of his adult life in the United States. Pittendrigh is regarded as the \"father of the biological clock,\" and founded the modern field of chronobiology alongside Jürgen Aschoff and Erwin Bünning. He is known for his careful descriptions of the properties of the circadian clock in Drosophila and other species, and providing the first formal models of how circadian rhythms entrain (synchronize) to local light-dark cycles."
tagline: "British/American chronobiologist (1918-1996)"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1918-10-13"
deathDate: "1996-03-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump