Brandeis Professors Jeffrey C. Hall and Michael Rosbash, along with Michael W. Young, were awarded the prize for their research on how plants, humans and animals adapt their biological rhythm to synchronize with our planet’s day and night cycle, as the earth rotates, in order to control their daily life.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/02/health/nobel-medicine-prize-circadian-rhythm/index.html