The laureates are Jeffrey C Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michal W Young Rosbash is on the faculty at Brandeis University, Young at Rockefeller University and Hall is at the University of Maine. Winners of the 2017 Nobel Prize for Medicine are displayed, from left, Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young, during a press conference in Stockholm The Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to three Americans on Monday for discoveries about the body's daily rhythms. The laureates are Jeffrey C Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michal W Young Rosbash is on the faculty at Brandeis University, Young at Rockefeller University and Hall is at the University of Maine. The citation for the 9-million-kronor ($1.1 million) prize says the researchers isolated a gene that controls the normal daily biological rhythm. They "were able to peek inside our biological clock and elucidate its inner workings." Circadian rhythms adapt the workings of the bo...