Franz Halberg
This product was added biology to improve the basis of formal and / or substantive deficiencies in quality assurance. This is done to bring the quality of biology articles to an acceptable level. Please help to improve this article! Products are not significantly improved, may optionally be deleted.
Read also the more detailed information in the minimum requirements in biology articles.
Franz Halberg ( born July 5, 1919 in Bistrita, Romania, † June 9, 2013 ) is the founder of chronobiology and the creator of the concept of circadian rhythms.
Life and work
Halberg began his experiments on rhythms within living organisms in the 1940s. At the University of Minnesota, he founded the Chronobiology Laboratories, its director until his death. He worked in almost all areas of research into rhythms of life, and he was able to prove that there is a much longer -term periodicities than the circadian that can extend over many years, even.
He has published alone or together with his associates more than 3000 works.
His recent work to contexts in the field of solar-terrestrial physics were known, among other things, he many years of auroral data used, are published with Wilfried Schröder Maunder minimum. Halberg could demonstrate several periods from the environment of the solar-terrestrial relationships. He was in a large number of works also show that there are many diseases that are associated with certain life rhythms and their disorders.
Franz Halberg was a member of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin since 2001 eV
Halberg died on June 9, 2013 at the age of 93 years.