Everything about Karl Von Frisch totally explained
Karl Ritter von Frisch (
November 20 1886 –
June 12 1982) was an
Austrian
ethologist who received the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in
1973, along with
Nikolaas Tinbergen and
Konrad Lorenz.
He studied
zoology with
Richard von Hertwig whom he later succeeded as a professor of
zoology at
Munich, Germany. He studied the senses of
bees, identified their mechanisms of communication and showed their sensitivity to
ultraviolet and
polarized light. In the center of his work were the study of the sensory perceptions of the
honey bee and was one of the first who translated the meaning of the
waggle dance. The theory was disputed by other scientists and greeted with skepticism at the time. Only recently was it definitively proved to be an accurate theoretical analysis (see Nature magazine reference).
In
1973 he was awarded
Nobel Prize in
physiology and
medicine for his achievements in
comparative behavioral physiology and pioneering work in communication between insects.
Frisch's
honey bee work included the study of the
pheromones that are emitted by the
Queen bee and her daughters, which maintain the
hive's very complex social order.
Pheromones are chemical odors one organism emits to communicate with another organism, most likely for reproductive reasons. Outside the
hive, the pheromones cause the male bees, or
drones, to become attracted to a queen and mate with it. Inside the hive, the drones are not affected by the odor.
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