Frisch, Karl von

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Frisch, Karl von (1886–1982) Austrian zoologist. He shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine with K. Lorenz and N. Tinbergen for his pioneering work in ethology. He deciphered the ‘language’ of bees by studying their dance patterns in which one bee tells others in the hive the direction and distance of a food source. In his earlier work, he showed that fish and bees see colours, fish can hear and that bees can distinguish various flower scents.

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