Thomas Dyer Seeley

Thomas Dyer Seeley
Born(1952-06-17)June 17, 1952
Ellis Hollow, New York, US
NationalityAmerican
Alma materDartmouth College, Harvard University
Scientific career
FieldsHoney bee behavior
InstitutionsCornell University
Doctoral advisorBert Hölldobler and E. O. Wilson
Tom Seeley with observation hive of honey bees, in hut that he designed and constructed. Cranberry Lake Biological Station, New York, c. 1992.

Thomas Dyer Seeley is the Horace White Professor in Biology in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior at Cornell University. He is the author of several books on honeybee behavior, including Honeybee Democracy (2010) and The Wisdom of the Hive (1995) [1] He was the recipient of the Humboldt Prize in Biology in 2001. He primarily studies swarm intelligence by investigating how bees collectively make decisions.[2]

  1. ^ Behavior, Cornell University - Department of Neurobiology and. "Seeley Short CV". www.nbb.cornell.edu. Archived from the original on 2015-05-30.
  2. ^ Carl Zimmer (March 2012). "The Secret Life of Bees". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 2017-12-01.