Torkel Weis-Fogh
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Torkel Weis-Fogh (1922–1975) was a Danish zoologist.[1]
He was born in Aarhus and educated at Copenhagen University. He was research assistant to the Danish Nobel Prize winning physiologist August Krogh, where he began his study of the desert locust. After Krogh's death in 1949 Weis-Fogh worked in the laboratory until it closed in 1953. He spent a year at the Copenhagen Institute of Neurophysiology, but then moved to the University of Cambridge in England for four years. He returned to Copenhagen as Professor of Zoophysiology, before returning to Cambridge in 1966 when he was made Professor of Zoology, Cambridge University.
Weis-Fogh pioneered studies of insect flight with Krogh in a classic paper of 1951.[2]
References
- ↑ Treherne, J. E. (1976). "Torkel Weis-Fogh 1922-1975". Tissue & cell 8 (1): preceding. PMID 772881.
- ↑ Krogh, August; Weis-Fogh, Torkel (1951). "The Respiratory Exchange of the Desert Locust (Schistocerca Gregaria) before, During and After Flight". Journal of Experimental Biology (The Company of Biologists) 28 (3): 344–357. Retrieved 22 October 2013.
Further reading
- Anon.: Obituary of Weis-Fogh, T. Acrida '5(2), 1976
- Torkel Weis-Fogh: Scientific Papers and Correspondence
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