Ronald J. Konopka
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Ronald J. Konopka (1947-2015) was an American geneticist who studied chronobiology.[1] He made his most notable contribution to the field while working with Drosophila in the lab of Seymour Benzer at the California Institute of Technology. During this work, Konopka discovered the period (per) gene, which controls the period of circadian rhythms.[2][3]