Torkel Weis-Fogh

Torkel Weis-Fogh (1922–1975) was a Danish zoologist and Professor at the University of Cambridge and the University of Copenhagen.^{[1][8][9][10][11][12]}

Education

Weis-Fogh was born in Aarhus and educated at University of Copenhagen.

Research

Weis-Fogh 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.^{[13][14][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26]}

Weis-Fogh pioneered studies of insect flight with Krogh in a classic paper of 1951.^[27]

Awards and honours

The Hanne and Torkel Weis-Fogh fund is named in his honour.^[28]

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