Konrad Lorenz - Konrad Lorenz Konrad Lorenz during the Third Reich Konrad Zacharias Lorenz (November 7, 1903 - February 27, 1989) was an Austrian zoologist and ornithologist; and founder of modern ethology. He studied instinctive behaviour in animals, especially in grey geese. He discovered the principle of imprinting in psychology. Professor at the University of Vienna from 1928-1935, professor for Psychology at the University of Königsberg 1940, joined the German army in 1941, POW in Russia 1944-48. The Max Planck Society establishes the Lorenz institute for behavioural physiology in Buldern, northern Germany in 1950. In 1958 he transferred to the Max Planck Institute for Behavioural Physiology in Seewiesen. He published his best known book in 1963 Das sogenannte Böse which espouses his "Triebstauhypothese" (the "Psychohydraulic Model of Motivation"). He.
Karl Von Frisch - the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973 with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Konrad Lorenz. A professor of zoology at Munich, Germany, he studied the senses of bees, identified their mechanisms of communication and showed their sensitivity to ultraviolet light..
Jackdaw - towns, stranded fish on the shore, and will more readily take food from bird tables than other corvus species. Nest: Usually nests in colonies in cavities of trees, cliffs or ruined buildings and sometimes even in dense conifers. Eggs, normally 4-5, incubated over 17-18 days and fledged after 30-35 days. Voice: The commonest is the well known tchak-tchak call. A detailed description of the Jackdaw's social behaviour has been described in Konrad Lorenz's book King Solomon's ring.
University of Vienna - of Vienna include Robert Barany, Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Hans Fischer, Karl Landsteiner, Erwin Schrödinger, Victor Franz Hess, Otto Loewi, Konrad Lorenz and Friedrich A. von Hayek. The University of Vienna was the cradle of the Austrian School of economics. The founders of this school who studied here included Carl Menger, Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, Friedrich von Wieser, Joseph Schumpeter,Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich A. von Hayek. Organizational Structure: History and Present Developments The University of Vienna (as all universities and academies in Austria) featured an innovative system of democratic representation. Power inside the univeristy was shared equally among the three pressure groups: students (the largest), junior faculty and senior professors. All groups had the right to send representatives to boards that then took votes on almost all issues. While guaranteeing that all groups.
February 27 - - Lotte Lehmann, singer (+ 1976) 1891 - David Sarnoff, broadcasting pioneer (+ 1971) 1892 - William Demarest, actor (+ 1983) 1899 - Charles Best, medical scientist (+ 1978) 1902 - John Steinbeck, writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature 1962 (+ 1968) 1902 - Gene Sarazen, golfer 1903 - Grethe Weiser, actress (+ 1970) 1905 - Franchot Tone, actor (+ 1968) 1907 - Mildred Bailey, jazz performer (+ 1951) 1910 - Joan Bennett, actress (+ 1990) 1912 - Lawrence Durrell, writer (+ 1990) 1913 - Irwin Shaw, writer (+ 1984) 1923 - Dexter Gordon, jazz saxophone player (+ 1990) 1928 - Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel 1928 - Alfred Hrdlicka, sculptor and graphic artist 1930 - Joanne Woodward, actress 1932 - Elizabeth Taylor, actress 1934 - Ralph Nader,.
Eric R. Kandel - well known American neuropsychologist, had tried but failed to identify an anatomical locus for memory storage in the cortex at the surface of the brain. When Kandel joined the Laboratory of Neurophysiology at the National Institutes of Health in 1957, William Scoville and Brenda Milner had recently described the patient H.M., who had lost explicit memory storage following removal of the hipppocampus. Kandel took on the task of performing electrophysiological recordings of hippocampal pyramidal neurons. Working with Alden Spencer, electrophysiological evidence was found for action potentials in the dendritic trees of hippocampal neurons. They also noticed the spontaneous pace-maker-like activity of these neurons and a robust recurrent inhibition in the hippocampus. With respect to memory, there was nothing in the general electrophysiological properties of hippocampal neurons that suggested why the hippocampus.
Ethology - have made much more use of a truly comparative method than comparative psychologists ever have. Darwinism and the beginnings of ethology Because ethology is understood as a branch of biology, ethologists have been particularly concerned with the evolution of behaviour and the understanding of behaviour in terms of the theory of natural selection. In one sense the first modern ethologist was Charles Darwin, whose book The expression of the emotions in animals and men influenced many ethologists. However, he pursued his interest in behaviour by encouraging his protégé George Romanes, who investigated animal learning and intelligence using an anthropormorphic method that did not gain scientific support. The early ethologists, such as Oskar Heinroth and Julian Huxley instead concentrated on behaviours that can be called instinctive, or natural, in that they occur.
1903 - - Benjamin Spock, pediatrician (+ 1998) May 3 - Bing Crosby, singer (+ 1977) May 8 - Fernandel, actor (+ 1971) May 20 - Barbara Hepworth, sculptor (+ 1975) May 21 - Frank Sargeson, writer (+1982) May 29 - Bob Hope, comedian (+ 2003) June 6 - Aram Khachaturian, composer (+ 1978) June 8 - Marguerite Yourcenar, writer (+ 1987) June 12 - Emmett Hardy, jazz musician (+ 1925) June 19 - Lou Gehrig, baseball player (+ 1941) June 21 - Al Hirschfeld, caricaturist (+ 2003) June 25 - George Orwell, author (+ 1950) June 25 - Pierre Brossolette, journalist, French Resistance (+ 1944) July 1 - Amy Johnson, aviator (+ 1941) July 2 - Olav V, King of Norway (+ 1991) July 2 - Alec Douglas-Home, British prime minister (+.
1973 - premieres The Six Million Dollar Man debuts Large-screen projection color TVs hit the market Births January 8 - Sean Paul, Jamaican reggae singer February 4 - Oscar De La Hoya, boxing champion February 16 - Cathy Freeman, Australian athlete February 26 - Jenny Thompson, U.S. Olympic swimmer February 26 - Marshall Faulk, American football star February 28 - Eric Lindros, ice hockey star April 4 - David Blaine, illusionist April 24 - Sachin Tendulkar, Indian cricketerer May 1 - Oliver Neuville, soccer player, German national team May 10 - Dario Franchitti, automobile racer May 16 - Tori Spelling, actress June 22 - Carson Daly, talk show host, VJ. July 20 - Haakon Magnus, Crown Prince of Norway July 26 - Kate Beckinsale, actress August 8 - Scott Stapp, Creed frontman October.
1989 - end (some commentators from both nations exaggerated the wording and independently declared the Cold War over). December 6 - The École Polytechnique Massacre (or Montreal Massacre): an anti-feminist gunman murders fourteen young women at the École Polytechnique in Montreal. December 22 - After a week bloody demonstrations, Ion Iliescu takes over as president of Romania, ending Nicolae Ceauşescu's communist dictatorship. December 25 - Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena are executed. December 29 - Riots break-out after Hong Kong decides to forcibly repatriate Vietnamese refugees. Rice University celebrates the demisesquicentennial anniversary of its founding. Fernando Collor de Mello wins the first elections in Brazil in 29 years. Kamchatka opened to Russian civilian visitors. Richard M. Daley elected mayor of Chicago. Retirement of the Alize propeller-driven anti-submarine planes from carrier service in.
1989 in film - Harrison Ford Lethal Weapon 2, starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover Look Who's Talking Twins, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito Back to the Future Part II, starring Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd and Lea Thompson Ghostbusters II, starring Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray The Little Mermaid Driving Miss Daisy Parenthood, starring Steve Martin Births January 3 - Alex D. Linz March 5 - Jake Lloyd July 23 - Daniel Radcliffe Deaths February 11 - George O'Hanlon, actor/director. February 27 - Konrad Lorenz April 26 - Lucille Ball, film and television actress June 28 - Joris Ivens, filmmaker July 10 - Mel Blanc, voice actor July 11 - Laurence Olivier, actor October 4 - Graham Chapman, comedian October 6 - Bette Davis, actress Other Movies Released The Abyss Bill and Ted's.
1903 in science - Nobel Prize for Chemistry: Svante August Arrhenius Nobel Prize for Medicine: Niels Ryberg Finsen Births January 22 - Fritz Houtermans, physicist January 27 - John Carew Eccles, psychologist February 2 - Bartel Leendert van der Waerden, mathematician February 22 - Frank P. Ramsey, mathematician April 6 - Doc Edgerton, professor, electrical engineer April 25 - Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov, mathematician August 7 - Louis Leakey, archaeologist November 7 - Konrad Lorenz, zoologist November 27 - Lars Onsager, chemist December 28 - John von Neumann, mathematician Deaths March 28 - Emile Baudot, telegraph engineer April 28 - Willard Gibbs, physical chemist.
Altenberg - Germany a municipality in Austria near Vienna, on site the family mansion of Konrad Lorenz, see Altenberg, Austria the german name of the Vieille Montagne, a former zinc mine in Kelmis This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page..
Behavioral imprinting - which a baby learns who its mother and (in some species) father are. The biologist Konrad Lorenz studied imprinting and was followed by a gaggle of geese who had imprinted on him (more specifically, on his wading boots). Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Sexual imprinting 2 Westermarck effect 3 Westermarck vs. Freud 4.
Cat - a herd, as other domesticated animals did. This evolutionary history may be the reason cats do not 'understand' the desires of humans in the same way that dogs do; before humans, cats had fewer social relationships to benefit from. This may also contribute to a sense common among pet owners that cats are both more aloof and more self-sufficient than other pets. However, cats can be very affectionate towards their humans, especially if they imprint on them at a very young age and are treated with consistent affection. For more information on the care of domestic cats, see How to choose your pet and take care of it, which has a section on cats. Varieties of domestic cat There are many named breeds, each with distinct features and heritage. However, due.
Timeline of biology and organic chemistry - molecules and propose a tetrahedral carbon atom. 1876 - Oskar Hertwig and Hermann Fol show that fertilized eggs possess both male and female nuclei. 1884 - Emil Fischer begins his detailed analysis of the compositions and structures of sugars. 1898 - Martinus Beijerinck uses filtering experiments to show that tobacco mosaic disease is caused by something smaller than a bacteria which he names a virus. 1906 - Mikhail Tsvett discovers the chromatography technique for organic compound separation. 1907 - Ivan Pavlov demonstrates conditioned responses with salivating dogs. 1907 - Emil Fischer artificially synthesizes peptide amino acid chains and thereby shows that amino acids in proteins are connected by amino group-acid group bonds. 1911 - Thomas Morgan proposes that Mendelian factors are arranged in a line on chromosomes. 1926 - James Sumner.
Timeline of computing 500 BC-1949 - next census - so a competition was held to try to find a better method. This was won by a Census Department employee, Herman Hollerith (1860-1929 - who went on to found the Tabulating Machine Company (see 1911), later to become IBM. Herman borrowed Babbage's idea of using the punched cards (see 1801) from the textile industry for the data storage. His machines used mechanical relays (solenoids) to increment mechanical counters. This method was used in the 1890 census, the result (62,622,250 people) was released in just 6 weeks! This storage allowed much more in-depth analysis of the data and so, despite being more efficient, the 1890 census cost about double (actually 198%) that of the 1880 census. The inspiration for this invention was Hollerith's observation of railroad conductors during a.
Timeline of ornithology - Birds to campaign against the plumage trade 1889 - Ludwig Koch makes the first sound recording of birdsong, that of a captive Common Sharma 1899 - Christian Mortensen of Viborg, Denmark is the first ornithologist to undertake systematic large-scale ringing. He uses numbered aluminium rings to mark 165 Starlings caught in nestboxes 1901 - Johanness Thienemann establishes "Vogelwarte Rossitten" (now Rybachy), the world's first bird observatory 1901 - The Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union established 1905 - Foundation of the National Audubon Society 1907 - The monthly journal British Birds begins publication 1909 - First organised ringing schemes in the UK 1909 - A bird observatory is established at Heligoland by Hugo Weigold. Birds are collected in specially designed wire-netting traps, still known today as "Heligoland Traps" 1909 - First known mapping.
Superstimulus - tendency, or any stimulus that elicits a response more strongly than the stimulus that normally releases it. The concept is derived from ethology. Konrad Lorenz observed that birds would select for brooding eggs that resembled those of their own species but were larger. Niko Tinbergen, following his extensive analysis of the stimulus features that elicited food-begging in the chick of the Herring Gull, constructed an artificial superstimulus consisting of a red knitting needle with three white bands painted round it; this elicited a stronger response than an accurate three-dimensional model of the parent's head (white) and bill (yellow with a red spot). Lorenz and Tinbergen accounted for the superreleaser effect in terms of the concept of the innate releasing mechanism; however this concept is no longer widely used. The core observation.
Nazi Germany - different organisations for the purpose of helping them in staying in power. The character of the most of them is typical for totalitarian regimes, although most countries do have armed forces of some sort. Military Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW) -- Armed Forces High Command Oberkommando des Heeres (OKH) -- Army High Command Oberkommando der Marine (OKM) -- Navy High Command Oberkommando der Luftwaffe (OKL) -- Airforce High Command Wehrmacht -- Armed Forces Heer -- Army Luftwaffe -- Airforce Kriegsmarine -- Navy Oberbefehlshaber West Abwehr -- Military Intelligence Paramilitary organisations SA -- Sturmabteilung SS -- Schutzstaffel Waffen-SS Deutscher Volkssturm State police Reich Central Security Office (RSHA - Reichssicherheitshauptamt) Regular Police (Ordnungspolizei (ORPO)) Schutzpolizei (Safety Police) Gendarmerie (Rural Police) Gemeindepolizei (Local Police) Security Police (Sicherheitspolizei (SIPO)) Geheime Staatspolizei (Gestapo) Reich Kriminalpolizei (Kripo) Sicherheitsdienst.
