Richard Ernest Kronauer

Biography

• Born in 1925
• BS in Mechanical Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology in 1947
• MS in Mechanical Engineering from Harvard University in 1948
• PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Harvard University in 1951
• * Dissertation: Secondary Flows in Fluid Dynamics, with advisor Howard Wilson Emmons
• Stayed at Harvard after PhD, and eventually named Gordon Mckay professor
• Wife Joanne Edwards Kronauer
• As of March 2008, Professor Kronauer is listed as co-inventor on 6 patents for devices relating to circadian rhythm: US Patent Numbers 5163426, 5176133, 5167228, 5304212, 5503637, 5545192
• Co-inventor for pending patent application 11/113,356, filed Apr 25, 2005
• Co-inventor for a reciprocating actuator and a fluid operating apparatus

  Well-known students

• Steven H. Strogatz, PhD, Harvard University, 1986

  Frequent collaborators

• Charles Czeisler
• Charles Stromeyer
• Alex Chaparro

  Selected publications

• RE Kronauer. "Secondary Flows in Fluid Dynamics," Harvard University Dissertation, 1951.
• TA McMahon and RE Kronauer. "Tree structures: deducing the principle of mechanical design," J Theor Biol 59: 443-466, 1976.
• RE Kronauer, CA Czeisler, SF Pilato, MC Moore-Ede and ED Weitzman. "Mathematical model of the human circadian system with two interacting oscillators," Am J Physiol 242:R3-R17, 1982.
• CA Czeisler, JS Allan, SH Strogatz, JM Ronda, R Sanchez, CD Rios, WO Freitag, GS Richardson, and RE Kronauer. "Bright light resets the human circadian pacemaker independent of the timing of the sleep-wake cycle," Science 233:667-671, August 1986.
• MC Khoo, RE Kronauer, KP Strohl and AS Slutsky. "Factors inducing periodic breathing in humans: a general model," J App Physiology 53:644-659, 1986.
• CA Czeisler, RE Kronauer, JS Allan, JF Duffy, ME Jewett, EN Brown, and JM Ronda. "Bright light induction of strong resetting of the human circadian pacemaker," Science 244:1328-1333, 1989.
• DB Boivin, JF Duffy, RE Kronauer, and CA Czeisler. "Dose-response relationships for resetting of human circadian clock by light," Nature 379:540-542.
• CA Czeisler, JF Duffy, TL Shanahan, EN Brown, JF Mitchell, DW Rimmer, JM Ronda, EJ Silva, JS Allan, JS Emens, DJ Dijk, and RE Kronauer. "Stability, Precision, and Near-24-Hour Period of the Human Circadian Pacemaker," Science 284:2177-2181, 1999.