Karl Ritter von Frisch | |
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 In traditional dress, with his honey bees | |
| Born | 20 November 1886 |
| Died | 12 June 1982 (aged 95) |
| Education | University of Vienna (PhD, 1910) University of Munich |
| Known for | Behaviour and perception of bees |
| Spouse(s) | Margarete, née Mohr |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Ethology |
| Institutions | Rostock University, Breslau University, University of Munich, University of Graz |
| Notable students | Ingeborg Beling, Maximilian Renner |
Karl Ritter[a] von Frisch, ForMemRS[1] (20 November 1886 – 12 June 1982) was a German-Austrian ethologist who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973, along with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Konrad Lorenz.[2][3]
His work centered on investigations of the sensory perceptions of the honey bee and he was one of the first to translate the meaning of the waggle dance. His theory, described in his 1927 book Aus dem Leben der Bienen (translated into English as The Dancing Bees), was disputed by other scientists and greeted with skepticism at the time. Only much later was it shown to be an accurate theoretical analysis.[4]
- ^ a b Thorpe, W. H. (1983). "Karl von Frisch. 20 November 1886-12 June 1982". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 29: 196–200. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1983.0008. JSTOR 769801.
- ^ Michelsen, A. (2003). "Karl von Frisch lecture. Signals and flexibility in the dance communication of honeybees". Journal of Comparative Physiology A. 189 (3): 165–174. doi:10.1007/s00359-003-0398-y. PMID 12664092. S2CID 7241637.
- ^ Raju, T. N. (1999). "The Nobel chronicles. 1973: Karl von Frisch (1886-1982); Konrad Lorenz (1903-89); and Nikolaas Tinbergen (1907-88)". Lancet. 354 (9184): 1130. doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(05)76931-2. PMID 10509540. S2CID 54236399.
- ^ Riley, J.; Greggers, U.; Smith, A.; Reynolds, D.; Menzel, R. (2005). "The flight paths of honeybees recruited by the waggle dance". Nature. 435 (7039): 205–207. Bibcode:2005Natur.435..205R. doi:10.1038/nature03526. PMID 15889092. S2CID 4413962.
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