2017年10月2日，诺贝尔委员会宣布，由于在“生物节律的分子机制方面的发现”，本年度的诺贝尔生理学或医学奖颁发给美国遗传学家杰弗里.霍尔、迈克尔.罗斯巴什和迈克尔.扬。
“The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institute has today decided to award the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, jointly to Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm."
“卡罗林斯卡医学院诺贝尔奖委员会今天（2017/10/02）决定将2017年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖授予杰弗里.霍尔、迈克尔.罗斯巴什和迈克尔.杨，以表彰他们在分子机制控制生物节律方面的发现。”
Thomas Perlmann, Secretary of the Nobel Assembly shortly after 5:30 this morning Eastern time.
美国东部时间今早（2017/10/02）5点30分刚过，诺贝尔委员会秘书托马斯.佩尔曼公布了此消息。
“Jeffrey Hall was born in New York and performed his seminal work at Brandeis University. He’s not retired and lives in Cambridge, in Boston. Michael Rosbash was born in Oklahoma City and performed his prize-winning studies also at Brandeis University where he’s still on the faculty. And finally, Michael Young was born in Miami and did his work at Rockefeller University in New York where he also remains on the faculty…ever since the emergence of life on Earth about four billion years ago, evolving life forms had to adapt to the rotation of our planet…but how is this possible?
“杰弗里.霍尔出生在美国纽约，在布兰戴斯大学进行影响深远的研究工作。现在他尚未退休，居住在波士顿坎布里奇。迈克尔.罗斯巴什出生在俄克拉荷马城，进行获奖研究的地点同样是布兰戴斯大学，而且至今仍在职。迈克尔.杨出生在迈阿密，在纽约洛克菲勒大学从事研究工作，目前也在职。自从约40亿年前地球上出现生命以来，进化的生命形态不得不适应地球的自转。适应每日规律变化的能力对生命形态至关重要……不过这是怎么成为可能的呢？”
“This year’s Nobel Laureates have been studying this fundamental problem and solved the mystery of how an inner clock in most of our cells in our bodies can anticipate daily fluctuations between night and day to optimize our behavior and physiology…since the paradigm shifting discoveries by Hall, Rosbash and Young, circadian biology has developed into a highly dynamic research field with vast implications for our health and well-being.”
“今年的诺贝尔奖获得者一直在研究这个基础问题，而且揭开了我们体内大部分细胞如何预见昼夜波动并优化我们的行为和生理这一奥秘。由于霍尔、罗斯巴什和杨这一范式转移级别的发现，生理节奏生物学发展为高度动态的研究领域，而且对我们的健康和幸福生活具有重大意义。”
For an in-depth listen about the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, look for the Scientific American Science Talk podcast later today.
若想深入了解2017年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖的信息，请关注今天晚些时候上线的科学美国人“科学对话”播客节目。
