Wolfgang Wieser (zoologist)

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Wolfgang Wieser (born July 5, 1924 in Vienna ; † March 3, 2017 ) was an Austrian zoologist , physiologist , evolutionary biologist and professor at the University of Innsbruck .

Wieser studied zoology, botany, anthropology and philosophy at the University of Vienna . In 1951 he received his doctorate and spent several years doing research at Lund University and in the USA. From 1960 he was university assistant at the Zoological Institute of the University of Vienna and at the Institute for Cancer Research and in 1961 he qualified as a professor. From 1967 to 1994 he was professor of zoology at the University of Innsbruck, where in 1967 he set up the Institute of Zoophysiology , which was merged into the Institute of Zoology in 1978.

Wieser dealt with ecology (where he co-founded ecophysiology and examined the ecophysiology of freshwater fish and invertebrates in soils) and animal physiology (e.g. energy metabolism), with evolutionary biology and with general and current issues of biology. For example, he published a book on cybernetics and biology as early as 1959.

He was an honorary member of the German Zoological Society (2001). In 1976 he became a corresponding and in 1991 a full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences . In 2005 he received the Anna Krüger Prize of the Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin . He was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1984).

Fonts (selection)

  • Organisms-structures-machines. To a doctrine of the organism. Fischer TB 1959
  • Free-living nematodes and other small invertebrates of Puget Sound beaches. University of Washington Press, Seattle 1959
  • Effects of temperature on ectothermic organisms: ecological implications and mechanisms of compensation. Springer 1973
  • Konrad Lorenz and his critics: on the state of behavioral research. Piper 1976
  • Bioenergetics: energy transformations in organisms. Thieme 1986
  • From becoming to being: energetic and social aspects of evolution. Paul Parey 1986
  • as editor: The Evolution of Evolutionary Biology: From Darwin to DNA. Spectrum 1994
  • Invention of individuality or the two faces of evolution. Spectrum 1998
  • Brain and Genome: A New Screenplay for Evolution. CH Beck 2007

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personal data
SURNAME Wieser, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 2017