Franz Huber (biologist)

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Franz Huber (born November 20, 1925 in Nußdorf ; † April 27, 2017 ) was a German behavioral scientist and neurobiologist and one of the founders of neuroethology .

Life

From 1947 Huber studied biology, chemistry, physics and geography at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the Technical University of Munich with the aim of teaching at the grammar school, but then turned to academic zoology. From 1951 to 1953 Huber was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation and received his doctorate in 1953. He then worked as an assistant at the Zoophysiological Institute at the University of Tübingen and completed his habilitation there in 1960 in zoology.

In 1963 he became professor of animal physiology at the University of Cologne and in 1973 a scientific member of the Max Planck Society and director of the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology in Seewiesen in the neuroethology department.

He did many research stays abroad and received offers from the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Michigan , which he declined. In 1993 he retired.

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Huber dealt with the acoustic behavior and communication of grasshoppers, crickets and cicadas and their neurobiological basis, the neuronal basis of hearing (pattern and frequency analysis) and the neurobiology of complex motor patterns. From 1975 to 1985 he was co-organizer of the DFG priority program Neural Mechanisms of Behavior . From 1970 to 1974 Huber was external research director at the International Center of Insect Physiology and Ecology in Nairobi .

Honors and memberships

In 1980 Huber received the Karl-Ritter-von-Frisch Medal from the German Zoological Society , of which he was chairman in 1993/94 and of which he had been an honorary member since 2003. He was a member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz, the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and the Leopoldina (1974) as well as the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . He has received several honorary doctorates (Universities of Cologne, Toulouse, Odense and Zurich). In 1983 Huber was the first foreigner to receive the Napoleon Cybulski Medal from the Polish Physiological Society. He was a fellow of the International Society for Neuroethology.

Fonts

  • Location and importance of nervous centers for instinctive actions in insects , o. O. 1953, DNB 480436215 (Dissertation University of Munich, Faculty of Natural Sciences, November 20, 1953, III, 111, V numbered sheets with tables, several sheets with glued-in illustrations, 4 ° [ Typescript duplicated]).
  • Franz Huber: Experimental analysis of some of the services of the central nervous system and in particular of the brain of the Orthoptera <Saltatoria: Gryllidae> , o.O. 1959 DNB 481007679 (Habilitation University of Tübingen, Faculty of Natural Sciences, January 14, 1960, II, 76, V counted leaves, Anl ., 4 [typescript]).
  • with Hubert Markl (editor): Neuroethology and Behavioral Physiology. Springer Verlag, Berlin a. a. 1983, ISBN 3-540-12644-9 .
  • with Thomas Edwin Moore, Werner Loher (Eds.): Cricket Behavior and Neurobiologie , Cornell University Press 1989
  • with H. Carl Gerhardt (Ed.): Acoustic Communication in Insects and Anurans , University of Chicago Press 2002, ISBN 9780226288338 .
  • Cricket neuroethology: neuronal basis of intraspecific acoustic communication , Advances in the Study of Behavior, Volume 19, 1990, pp. 299-356
  • with John Thorson: Cricket Auditory Communication, Scientific American, Volume 253, 1985, No. 6, pp. 46-54
  • Chronicle of my life , self-published 2016 (autobiography)

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  1. ↑ http://trauer.sueddeutsche.de/trauerbeispiel/franz-huber-1925 Obituary notice in the Süddeutsche Zeitung (accessed on May 8, 2017)

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personal data
SURNAME Huber, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German behavioral scientist and neurobiologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Nussdorf
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 2017