Franz Halberg

Infobox Person
name = Franz Halberg


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birth_date = birth date and age|1919|7|5|mf=yes
birth_place = Romania
known_for = Chronobiology
education = M.D.
alma_mater = University of Cluj (Romania), Harvard Medical School
employer = University of Minnesota
occupation = Professor
website = http://www.msi.umn.edu/~halberg/
footnotes =

Franz Halberg (born July 5, 1919) is a scientist and the founder 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 (IAGA), edited by Wilfried Schröder. He also published in "Wege zur Wissenschaft, Pathways to Science", edited by Wilfried Schröder his biography. He is a member of many international bodies, he has 5 titles as Dr. honoris causa, and was a member of the Leibniz Sozietät der Wissenschaften zu Berlin.

External links

* [http://www.msi.umn.edu/~halberg Halberg Chronobiology Laboratory] at the University of Minnesota