biography
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| lived:
| (1886–1982)
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| biography:
| Ethologist, born in Vienna, Austria. He studied at Munich and Trieste, then taught zoology at several universities, much of his career being spent at Munich, where he founded the Zoological Institute (1932). He was a key figure in developing ethology using field observation of animals combined with ingenious experiments. His 40-year study of the honey bee showed that forager bees communicate information (on the location of food sources) in part by use of coded dances. In 1973 he shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. |
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