Obituary: Professor Otto Lowenstein

From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: February 22, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

OTTO LOWENSTEIN was one of the scientists and intellectuals who were fortunate to leave Germany well before the outbreak of the Second World War.

He came to Birmingham University in 1933 through the influence of Professor Harold Munro Fox, who was then Head of the Department of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy. Lowenstein had already made a reputation in Munich, where he was a student of Karl von Frisch, the distinguished zoologist who caused a stir in scientific circles with his classic studies on the dance language of the honey-bee. Von Frisch's interests in sense organs and behaviour were ...

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