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Franz Halberg

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American sleep researcher (1919-2013)

United StatesAcademicsLived 1919 to 2013 · aged 93
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Franz Halberg was a scientist and one of the founders of modern chronobiology. He first began his experiments in the 1940s and later founded the Chronobiology Laboratories at the University of Minnesota.

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2006honorary doctor of the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia
2000honorary doctorate of the Masaryk University
1979honorary doctorate from University of Montpellier-I

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Franz Halberg was a scientist and one of the founders of modern chronobiology. He first began his experiments in the 1940s and later founded the Chronobiology Laboratories at the University of Minnesota. Halberg published many papers also in the serials of the History Commission of International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy. He also published in "Wege zur Wissenschaft, Pathways to Science". He was a member of many international bodies, was awarded five honorary doctorates and was a member of the Leibniz Sozietät der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. In the 1950s, he introduced the word circadian, which derives from the Latin about (circa) a day (diem).

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Lived 1919 to 2013 · aged 93
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