CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Discoveries of Molecular Mechanisms Controlling the Circadian Rhythm. The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded to Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms that control circadian rhythms.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 to Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne “for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves".

Detailed explanation-3: -The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to National Institutes of Health grantees Jeffrey C. Hall, Ph. D., of the University of Maine, Orono; Michael Rosbash, Ph. D., of Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts; and Michael W.

Detailed explanation-4: -Michael Rosbash was born in 1944 in Kansas City, USA. He received his doctoral degree in 1970 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. During the following three years, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.