Austria 1962

Karl von Frisch

1962 Balzan Prize for Biology

For having consecrated his entire life to experimenting on thousands of bees, thus discovering a true language of gestures for communication and opening new insights into the knowledge of insect behaviour.

Laudatio

Zoologisches Institut der Universität München

* 1886 † 1982

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