Karl Ritter von Frisch was a German-Austrian ethologist who received the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine along with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Konrad Lorenz. His work centered on the sensory perceptions of the honey bee, and he was one of the first to translate the meaning of the waggle dance.
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Shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work on animal behavior patterns; Lorenz's own lead states only the shared prize, no separate joint project named.
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Shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine; Tinbergen's own lead states only the shared prize, the same nature as the Lorenz-Tinbergen and Lorenz-von Frisch edges above, no evidence of a direct joint project between Tinbergen and von Frisch alone.
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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.
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20 November 1886
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12 June 1982
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He shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Karl von Frisch.
Nikolaas Tinbergen (Wikipedia)
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was a Dutch biologist and ornithologist who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Karl von Frisch and Konrad Lorenz for their discoveries concerning the organization and elicitation of individual and social behavior patterns in animals.
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