Frisch, Karl von
Syllabification: (Frisch, Karl von)
Pronunciation: /friSH/
Definition of Frisch, Karl von
- (1886–1982), Austrian zoologist. He worked mainly on honeybees, studying particularly their vision, navigation, and communication. He showed that they perform an elaborate dance in the hive to indicate the direction and distance of food. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1973), shared with Konrad Lorenz and Nikolaas Tinbergen.