BIOLOGIST

Jeffrey C. Hall

1945 - Today

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Jeffrey Connor Hall (born May 3, 1945) is an American geneticist and chronobiologist. Hall is Professor Emeritus of Biology at Brandeis University and currently resides in Cambridge, Maine. Hall spent his career examining the neurological component of fly courtship and behavioral rhythms. Through his research on the neurology and behavior of Drosophila melanogaster, Hall uncovered essential mechanisms of the circadian clocks and shed light on the foundations for sexual differentiation in the nervous system. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2024). Jeffrey C. Hall is the 224th most popular biologist (down from 186th in 2024), the 1,955th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,733rd in 2019) and the 45th most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Jeffrey C. Hall ranks 224 out of 1,097. Before him are Oldfield Thomas, James Dwight Dana, Bert Sakmann, Eric F. Wieschaus, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, and August Grisebach. After him are Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle, Temple Grandin, Waldemar Haffkine, John James Audubon, Othenio Abel, and Anders Sparrman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Jeffrey C. Hall ranks 122. Before him are Patch Adams, John McAfee, Kim Carnes, Anatoly Fomenko, Birendra of Nepal, and Antonio Cañizares Llovera. After him are Milo Manara, Momčilo Krajišnik, Alain Juppé, Jeremy Rifkin, Daniel Olbrychski, and Viktor Saneyev.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jeffrey C. Hall ranks 1,955 out of 20,380. Before him are Mario Lanza (1921), Kenneth Waltz (1924), Christopher C. Kraft Jr. (1924), Robert B. Laughlin (1950), Grover Washington Jr. (1943), and Ted Danson (1947). After him are William Westmoreland (1914), Martha Gellhorn (1908), James Foley (1953), Jim Caviezel (1968), Susan Hayward (1917), and Ben E. King (1938).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Jeffrey C. Hall ranks 45. Before him are George C. Williams (1926), George Wald (1906), Gregory Goodwin Pincus (1903), J. Michael Bishop (1936), James Dwight Dana (1813), and Eric F. Wieschaus (1947). After him are Temple Grandin (1947), Stephen Jay Gould (1941), John du Pont (1938), H. Robert Horvitz (1947), James Rothman (1950), and Michael Rosbash (1944).

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