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Gottfried S. Fraenkel
Gottfried Samuel Fraenkel (April 29, 1901 – October 27, 1984) was a German-born American insect physiologist and a professor of entomology at the University of Illinois. He is considered a founding figure in the field of insect nutrition and endocrinology. He also studied insect behavior and wrote an influential book along with D.L. Gunn, ''The Orientation of Animals'' (1940, 1961). Biography Fraenkel was born in Munich in a Jewish family. His father was a ''Justizrat'' (councillor of justice). He trained to play the piano at home and went to obtain a teaching degree at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, University of Munich and attended the course of Richard Hertwig, R. C. Hertwig, Karl Ritter von Goebel, Karl von Goebel, Richard Willstätter, Richard Willstatter, Wilhelm Röntgen, W. K. Rontgen, and Karl von Frisch. He was interested in aquatic biology and maintained specimens in a tank but when they all died he had to visit the Marine Zoological Stations in Naples. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
G S Fraenkel
G, or g, is the seventh Letter (alphabet), letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the English alphabet, modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western Languages of Europe, European languages, and others worldwide. Its name in English is English alphabet#Letter names, ''gee'' (pronounced ), plural ''gees''. The Letter case, lowercase version can be written in two forms: the single-storey (sometimes "opentail") and the double-storey (sometimes "looptail") . The former is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children. History The evolution of the Latin alphabet's G can be traced back to the Latin alphabet's predecessor, the Greek alphabet. The voiced velar stop was represented by the third letter of the Greek alphabet, Gamma, gamma (Γ), which was later adopted by the Etruscan language. Latin then borrowed this "rounded form" of gamma, C, to represent the same sound in words such as ''recei'', which was likely a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
