Martin Lindauer was a German behavioral scientist. Lindauer studied communication systems in various species of social bees including stingless bees and honey bees. Much of his work was done in collaboration with Warwick Kerr in Brazil.

Biography

Martin Lindauer was born in Upper Bavaria

Upper Bavaria

Upper Bavaria is one of the seven administrative regions of Bavaria, Germany.- Geography :Upper Bavaria is located in the southern portion of Bavaria, and is centered around the city of Munich. It is subdivided into four regions : Ingolstadt, Munich, Bayerisches Oberland , and Südostoberbayern...

. He was on the Russian Front during World War II

World War II

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Academics

Lindauer’s academic supervisor was Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize

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 winning Karl von Frisch

Karl von Frisch

Karl Ritter von Frisch was an Austrian ethologist who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973, along with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Konrad Lorenz....

 with whom he had much academic collaboration. He was a major contributor to bee behavioral and sensory research, particularly in the fields of communication and orientation. Among other topics, he studied dance language and use of polarized light by bees as a compass. His work laid the foundation for many future bee researchers. He was also a co-editor of the Journal of Comparative Physiology.

Awards

• Honorary Doctorate-University of Zürich
  University of Zurich
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• Honorary Doctorate-University of Umea
• Honorary Doctorate-University of Saarbrücken
• The Order of the Federal Republic of Germany-1st Class
• The Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
  Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
  The Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art was first established on 28 November 1853 by King Maximilian II. von Bayern. It is awarded to acknowledge and reward excellent and outstanding achievements in the field of science and art...
  
  
• Memberships to several National and International scientific academies