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Karl Von Frisch

Karl von Frisch (1886-1982) was an Austrian ethologist who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973 with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Konrad Lorenz.

A professor of zoology at Munich, Germany, he studied the senses of bees, identified their mechanisms of communication and showed their sensitivity to ultraviolet light.

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