Eisner, Thomas
Born: 1929 AD
Currently alive, at 84 years of age.
Nationality:
German
Categories:
Naturalists
1929 - Born in Berlin, Germany. German chemical ecologist, entomologist, and naturalist.
1933 - Eisner emigrated with his family to Barcelona, Spain, then to France and then Uruguay.
1948-1955 - He went to the United States, and was a research associate at Harvard, where he worked with socio-biologist E O Wilson.
1957 - He joined Cornell, where he made major contributions to studies of insect physiology, adaptation, and behavior, particularly web-making communication in spiders, and the spraying defenses of the bombardier beetle.
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