Word: zoologists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Karl von Frisch, zoologist . . . Sc.D...
From the lists of outside scholars the Corporation has selected Karl von Frisch, the zoologist of Munich known for his studies of communication among bees and the American authority on international trade, Jacob Viner...
Vast new vistas of research have now opened up, says Dr. Esch. Since bees have no ears, do they hear with their antennae or organs under their abdomens? And do all species talk the same language? "The entire field,'' says the zoologist, "is pregnant with new discoveries...
...Zoologist Harald Esch of the University of Munich stumbled on the information while performing an elaborate experiment on bee dances. Prompted by curiosity, he poked a small microphone into the hive while a scout was making her dancing report. "I got the surprise of my life," he says. "Blasting out of the earphones came a loud 'thththrrrr.' followed by a short 'beep.' Then some of the worker bees flew out of the hive. I knew I had hit on something entirely...
...Oklahoma, two psychiatrists and a zoologist pumped an elephant full of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), a psychotomimetic drug. According to the latest issue of Science, they chose the subject for the experiment "because of his remarkable intelligence, his extended life span, his capacity for highly organized group relationships, and his extraordinary psychobiology in general. His fate was horrible and brief...