Torkel Weis-Fogh
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Torkel Weis-Fogh was a Danish
zoologist.
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 Cambridge University 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
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Torkel Weis-Fogh pioneered studies of insect flight with August Krogh
in this classic paper of 1951. The respiratory exchange of the desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria) before, during and after flight. J. Exp. Biol. 28,344 -357
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
zoologist.
He was born in Aarhus
Aarhus
Aarhus or Århus is the second-largest city in Denmark. The principal port of Denmark, Aarhus is on the east side of the peninsula of Jutland in the geographical center of Denmark...
and educated at Copenhagen University. He was research assistant to the Danish Nobel Prize winning physiologist August Krogh
August Krogh
Schack August Steenberg Krogh FRS was a Danish professor of Romani background at the department of zoophysiology at the University of Copenhagen from 1916-1945...
, where he began his study of the desert locust
Desert locust
Plagues of the desert locust have threatened agricultural production in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia for centuries. The livelihood of at least one-tenth of the world’s human population can be affected by this voracious insect...
. 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 Cambridge University 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
Professor of Zoology, Cambridge University
The Professorship of Zoology is a professorship at the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1866 it was originally the 'Professorship of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy', but was renamed in 1934.-Professors of Zoology:* Alfred Newton...
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Torkel Weis-Fogh pioneered studies of insect flight with August Krogh
August Krogh
Schack August Steenberg Krogh FRS was a Danish professor of Romani background at the department of zoophysiology at the University of Copenhagen from 1916-1945...
in this classic paper of 1951. The respiratory exchange of the desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria) before, during and after flight. J. Exp. Biol. 28,344 -357