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. 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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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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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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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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Radar solves mystery of bees' dances
Newspaper article from: China Daily; 5/17/2005; 506 words
; ...first described by the zoologist Karl von Frisch. After some dispute, this discovery...they flew directly. Despite this, von Frisch's ideas were backed by indirect...in Harpenden, Herts, shows that von Frisch was correct by revealing the precision...
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New dancer in the hive; an insect imposter helps scientists decipher honeybee lingo.
Magazine article from: Science News; 10/28/1989; ; 700+ words
; ...European robot honeybee. Ever since German researcher Karl von Frisch first documented in 1921 that honeybees perform a "waggle...The naturalist J.B.S. Haldane, a contemporary of von Frisch, suggested fruit growers might someday use fleet-footed...
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Look Who's Dancing.(bee behavior)
Magazine article from: Science News; 4/3/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...true to the groundbreaking Austro-German zoologist Karl von Frisch. After trying to decode honeybee dances for some 25 years and bungling the explanation the first few times, von Frisch hit upon a simple system. When returning triumphant...
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German-Israeli scientists' ties - a model for peace
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 6/14/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...the late Fifties and early Sixties, Markl worked with Karl von Frisch and Martin Lindauer at the University of Munich. Von Frisch had discovered one of the most important findings in...
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The dancing bees The hawthorn and elder blossom can't be ignored. But beyond their hedgerow flourishes are the less conspicuous wild flowers, like the barren strawberries.
Newspaper article from: Herald Express (Torquay UK); 5/17/2007; 700+ words
; ...vacuum of its instincts? No way! In 1923 Professor Karl von Frisch discovered that honey bees actually danced to communicate...told fellow bees where to go for the pollen. In 1946 Von Frisch published two marvellous papers on the bee dance as language...
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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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Lorenz, Konrad
Book article from: Animal Sciences
...human beings and dogs. That same year, Lorenz and Erich von Holst established the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral...observations along with colleagues Nikolas Tinbergen and Karl von Frisch established the existence of many genetically inherited...
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