Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index 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. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.