• Colin Stephenson Pittendrigh (October 13, 1918 – March 19, 1996) was a British-born biologist who spent most of his adult life in the United States. Pittendrigh...
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    biologist and behavioral physiologist. Together with Erwin Bünning and Colin Pittendrigh, he is considered to be a co-founder of the field of chronobiology...
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    considered the "father of American chronobiology." However, it was Colin Pittendrigh and not Halberg who was elected to lead the Society for Research in...
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  • Teleonomy is related to programmatic or computational aspects of purpose. Colin Pittendrigh, who coined the term in 1958, applied it to biological phenomena that...
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  • considered a co-founder of chronobiology along with Jürgen Aschoff and Colin Pittendrigh. Bünning was born on 23 January 1906 in Hamburg, Germany to Heinrich...
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    Kalmus and Erwin Bünning. In 1954, an important experiment reported by Colin Pittendrigh demonstrated that eclosion (the process of pupa turning into adult)...
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    Donald Kennedy (who later became the 8th president of Stanford) and Colin Pittendrigh (who is known as the “father of biological timing"). During his postdoctoral...
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  • and chains reminiscent of bacteria. Based upon such experiments, Colin Pittendrigh stated in December 1967 that "laboratories will be creating a living...
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  • developed mainly in the works of Richard Dawkins, W. D. Hamilton, Colin Pittendrigh and George C. Williams. It was popularized by Dawkins in his book...
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    University, where he began his research under the mentorship of Dr. Colin Pittendrigh. Currently, Johnson is the Stevenson Professor of Biological Sciences...
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  • Two prominent 20th century chronobiologists, Jürgen Aschoff and Colin Pittendrigh, both worked throughout the 1960s to model of the process of photoentrainment...
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  • being used or often referred to today. The father of chronobiology, Colin Pittendrigh, critiqued these terms, saying that researchers in Munich have trouble...
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  • organism match oscillation in the environment) initially proposed by Colin Pittendrigh and Serge Daan. The dual oscillator model suggests the presence of...
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  • of activity. In the 1960s, Colin Pittendrigh was one of the first biologists to use a double-plotted actogram. Pittendrigh used double-plotted actograms...
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  • contained no functional nucleic acids or other encoded information. Colin Pittendrigh stated in 1967 that "laboratories will be creating a living cell within...
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  • discovered by Jerry F. Feldman. Feldman had been a graduate student with Colin Pittendrigh at Princeton and went to Caltech in 1967 to begin genetic screens...
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    through analogy. Colin Pittendrigh coined the similar term 'teleonomy' for apparently goal-directed biological phenomena. For Pittendrigh, the notion of...
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    developed at a Princeton University laboratory, mainly accredited to Colin Pittendrigh, to measure the time that adult drosophilids emerged from pupae populations...
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  • continued his work with Orr and also collaborated with chronobiologist Colin Pittendrigh. During the collaboration, Konopka worked to understand behaviors...
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    rhythmic running activity of mice, founder of modern chronobiology, Colin Pittendrigh, recognised the work of Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan. A video showing...
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  • Cornelius Van Niel Donald Putnam Abbott Isabella Abbott Mary Belle Allen Colin Pittendrigh David Epel William Gilly Dennis Powers Mark Denny Stephen Palumbi...
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  • to as the Pittendrigh/Aschoff speaker, named after notable chronobiologist Colin Pittendrigh and Jürgen Aschoff. Notable past Pittendrigh/Aschoff speakers...
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  • in biology, Menaker went on to Princeton University. In the lab of Colin Pittendrigh, the father of research on biological clocks, Menaker studied the...
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  • families Also won in 1955 John Alexander Moore Columbia University Colin Pittendrigh Princeton University Cells as living clocks Charles G. Sibley Cornell...
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    The Quiet Man, Cul-de-sac and The Exorcist, in Dublin (d. 1973); Colin Pittendrigh, British-American biologist, developer of chronobiology, in Tyne and...
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  • Pierce Harvard University 2023 David Pilbeam Harvard University 1992 Colin Pittendrigh (d. 1996) Stanford University 1963 Molly Przeworski Columbia University...
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  • Laboratory Princeton University Dean of Princeton University Graduate School In office 1969–1973 Preceded by Colin Pittendrigh Succeeded by Alvin Kernan...
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  • mathematician, pneumonia. W. H. Murray, 83, Scottish mountaineer and writer. Colin Pittendrigh, 77, British-American chronobiologist. Alan Ridout, 61, British composer...
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  • postdoc by the two founders of modern chronobiology, Jürgen Aschoff and Colin Pittendrigh. This 4-year episode, at the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology...
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  • 94: 715–718. doi:10.1590/S0074-02761999000600001. ISSN 0074-0276. Pittendrigh, Colin S. (1950). "The Ecoclimatic Divergence of Anopheles bellator and A...
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