Frisch, Karl von
Frisch, Karl von (1886–1982)An Austrian zoologist who was joint winner (with Konrad
Lorenz and Nikolaas
Tinbergen) of the 1973 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their studies of animal behaviour. Von Frisch specialized in insect behaviour and in the 1940s showed that bees can navigate by the Sun and perform dances to communicate to other members of their hive the location of food sources (see
dance language). He also discovered that fish have an acute sense of hearing.
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A BEE'S LIFE TELLS US ABOUT OURSELVES
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 7/3/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Even as kids, 50 years ago, we heard about Karl von Frisch and the dancing bees. Von Frisch was an Austrian zoologist who discovered something...does this by doing a smart little dance that von Frisch learned how to interpret. A run straight up...
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Stingless-Bee Communication.
Magazine article from: American Scientist; 9/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...of 1919, an Austrian scientist, Karl von Frisch, sat in a former Jesuit cloister...location to nestmates. Nevertheless, von Frisch was the first systematically to...waggle dance served as the core of von Frisch's achievements. In this dance...
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The Honey Bee.(Review)
Magazine article from: Skeptical Inquirer; 9/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...dance language, discovered by Karl Von Frisch in 1943. (Foraging honeybees communicate...along the way. It took years before Von Frisch stumbled on the actual correlation...encodings of distance. In fact, Von Frisch spent much effort eliminating candidate...
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The hum of bees: a civilization made of flowers, light, and wax.(memoir)
Magazine article from: Harper's Magazine; 9/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...1910 an ophthalmologist named C. von Hess asserted that fish and all invertebrates...believe it," wrote the biologist Karl von Frisch. "[I]t was easier to believe...made an absurd mistake." In 1910 von Frisch began a series of basic empirical...
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Wrangle over 'Waggle dance'; New study on insect communication puts bee in scientist's bonnet.(NEWS)
Newspaper article from: San Francisco Chronicle; 5/12/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...colleagues. It was in the 1960s that Karl von Frisch, a German zoologist, first noticed...the new food source. At first, von Frisch thought the dancing bees merely...any other conclusion" than that von Frisch was right. The bees in his team...
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Sweet truth: the secret life of honeybees.
Magazine article from: Current Science, a Weekly Reader publication; 9/23/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...honeybees was the Austrian zoologist Karl von Frisch (1886-1982). Using tiny colored cards, Von Frisch discovered that bees see yellow...birds and beetles, but not bees. Von Frisch also made the first scientific observations...
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Bees log flight distances, train with maps.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Science News; 2/5/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...bee researcher and Nobel laureate Karl von Frisch turn out to be dead wrong, say...reading honeybee odometer distances. Von Frisch discovered that a honeybee finding...student, he had worked with the late von Frisch and adds, "I think he would be...
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Anatomy of a Controversy: The Question of a Language Among Bees.
Magazine article from: BioScience; 4/1/1991; ; 700+ words
; ...of communication as presented by Karl von Frisch. When he lectured at Yale, I joined...possibility, initially suggested by von Frisch decades earlier, that odor was...reexamined the data published by von Frisch and others and performed "strong...
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Dung beetle a marvel of navigation, if not diet; Insect uses moon as nocturnal compass.(NEWS)
Newspaper article from: San Francisco Chronicle; 7/7/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...1950, the famed animal behaviorist Karl von Frisch discovered that bees can navigate...polarization patterns in sunlight. Von Frisch's discovery "came as a surprise...for Scientific American. Since von Frisch's discovery, Wehner and other...
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Obituary: Professor Otto Lowenstein
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 2/22/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Munich, where he was a student of Karl von Frisch, the distinguished zoologist who...dance language of the honey-bee. Von Frisch's interests in sense organs and...zoology because of the influence of von Frisch. Lowenstein's facility in mathematics...
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Karl von Frisch
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Karl von Frisch The Austrian zoologist Karl von Frisch (1886-1982) is noted for his studies...honeybees communicate by waggle dancing. Karl von Frisch was born on November 20, 1886, in...
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Frisch, Karl von
Book article from: A Dictionary of Ecology
Frisch, Karl von (1886–1982)An Austrian zoologist who was joint winner...Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their studies of animal behaviour. Von Frisch specialized in insect behaviour and in the 1940s showed that bees can...
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Ethology
Book article from: Animal Sciences
...century: Konrad Lorenz, Nikolaas Tinbergen, and Karl von Frisch. Lorenz, an Austrian scientist and physician, is...interactions, by linking human instinct to rituals. Karl von Frisch studied the sensory systems of fish, discovering that...
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Biological rhythms
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...could tell the time of day by looking in his garden. Karl von Frisch (1886 – 1982) observed that bees visited...trials, the bees still fed at prescribed times. Although von Frisch did not know it, the bees were operating on an internal...
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Konrad Z. Lorenz
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...along with ethologist Gustav Kramer and physiologist Erich von Helst, of the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology...along with two other zoologists, Nikolaas Tinbergen and Karl von Frisch, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine...
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