BIOLOGIST

Karl von Frisch

1886 - 1982

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Karl Ritter von Frisch, (20 November 1886 – 12 June 1982) was a German-Austrian ethologist who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973, along with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Konrad Lorenz. His work centered on investigations of the sensory perceptions of the honey bee and he was one of the first to translate the meaning of the waggle dance. His theory, described in his 1927 book Aus dem Leben der Bienen (translated into English as The Dancing Bees), was disputed by other scientists and greeted with skepticism at the time. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karl von Frisch has received more than 417,376 page views. His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 56 in 2019). Karl von Frisch is the 38th most popular biologist (down from 36th in 2019), the 113th most popular biography from Austria (up from 119th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Austrian Biologist.

Karl von Frisch was a zoologist and ethologist. He is most famous for his work in animal behavior and the study of honeybees.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Karl von Frisch ranks 38 out of 1,097. Before him are Barbara McClintock, Albrecht Kossel, Charles Richet, Matthias Jakob Schleiden, Harald zur Hausen, and Dian Fossey. After him are Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, Lazzaro Spallanzani, Vladimir Vernadsky, Karl Ernst von Baer, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, and Christian de Duve.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Karl von Frisch ranks 16. Before him are Marc Bloch, René Guénon, Jean Arp, Ernst Thälmann, Karl Barth, and Wilhelm Furtwängler. After him are Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, George Mallory, Karl Polanyi, Jan Masaryk, Theodor Morell, and Hermann Broch. Among people deceased in 1982, Karl von Frisch ranks 23. Before him are Khalid of Saudi Arabia, Louis Aragon, Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, Gala Dalí, Jacques Tati, and Barack Obama Sr.. After him are Glenn Gould, Georges Perec, Hugh Everett III, John Belushi, Hugo Theorell, and Gilles Villeneuve.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Karl von Frisch ranks 113 out of 1,424. Before him are Otto of Greece (1815), Maria Leopoldina of Austria (1797), Archduke Maximilian Francis of Austria (1756), Leopold, Duke of Lorraine (1679), Dietrich Mateschitz (1944), and Paul Feyerabend (1924). After him are Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria (1883), Elisabeth of Austria, Queen of France (1554), Hans Asperger (1906), Maria Josepha of Austria (1699), Nikola IV Zrinski (1508), and Roman von Ungern-Sternberg (1886).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Austria

Among biologists born in Austria, Karl von Frisch ranks 3. Before him are Konrad Lorenz (1903), and Karl Landsteiner (1868). After him are Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901), Othenio Abel (1875), Leopold Fitzinger (1802), Clemens von Pirquet (1874), Erich von Tschermak (1871), Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti (1735), Joy Adamson (1910), Franz Unger (1800), and Josef August Schultes (1773).

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