Bert Hölldobler

1936 -

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country of citizenship: Germany

native language: German

languages spoken, written or signed: English, German

educated at: University of Würzburg

occupation: entomologist, zoologist, myrmecologist, university teacher

award received: Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, Körber European Science Prize, Alfried-Krupp Science Prize, Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art, Cothenius Medal, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, Humboldt Research Fellowship, Ernst-Jünger-Award for entomology, Karl Ritter von Frisch Medal, Lorenz Oken Medal, Treviranus Medal, Humboldt Prize, Tinbergen Lecture, Guggenheim Fellowship

Berthold Karl Hölldobler BVO (born 25 June 1936) is a German zoologist, sociobiologist and evolutionary biologist who studies evolution and social organization in ants. He is the author of several books, including The Ants, for which he and his co-author, E. O. Wilson, received the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction writing in 1991. Source: Wikipedia (en)