Colin Pittendrigh, Jürgen Aschoff, and the Natural Entrainment of Circadian Systems

@article{Daan2000ColinPJ,
  title={Colin Pittendrigh, J{\"u}rgen Aschoff, and the Natural Entrainment of Circadian Systems},
  author={Serge Daan},
  journal={Journal of Biological Rhythms},
  year={2000},
  volume={15},
  pages={195 - 207},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:12727467}
}
The Pittendrigh lecture is presented as the stand-in for Professor Jürgen Aschoff, who of course was invited to speak on the occasion but whose general health at 85 prevented him from coming over from Freiburg.
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