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Karl von Frisch

Austrian zoologist
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Karl von Frisch (born Nov. 20, 1886, Vienna, Austria—died June 12, 1982, Munich, W.Ger.) was a zoologist whose studies of communication among bees added significantly to the knowledge of the chemical and visual sensors of insects. He shared the 1973 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with animal behaviourists Konrad Lorenz and Nikolaas Tinbergen. Frisch received a Ph.D. from the University of Munich in 1910. He was appointed director of the Zoological Institution of the...

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