1936   -  

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