Education
From 1939 to 1949, Hassenstein studied biology, physics, and chemistry in Berlin, Göttingen, and Heidelberg.
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Bernhard Hassenstein
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Career
Bernhard Hassenstein was a student of behavioral physiologist Erich von Holst and one of the leading researchers in the fields of behavioral biology and bio-cybernetics. His scientific work includes substantial contributions to the understanding of motion perception in insects and color vision in humans. In 1948, he worked as an assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Biology in Wilhelmshaven.
From 1954-1958, he worked at the Zoophysiological Institute of the University of Tübingen.
In 1958, Hassenstein worked with physicist Werner Reichardt and engineer Hans Wenking to found the world"s first working group on cybernetics at the Max Planck Institute for Biology in Tübingen. In 1960, he was appointed Professor of Zoology at the University of Freiburg.
Hassenstein retired in 1984. Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, since 1961 German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, since 1965 Wissenschaftsrat, from 1968 to 1972 Biological Cybernetics Sensory and nerve physiology Behavioral biology of the Child Natural theory of concepts Akad 5.
Achievements
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German Society of Pediatrics - Honorary Member (1975) Max Born Medal for Responsibility in Science (1981) Charles Küpfmüller ring the Technical University of Darmstadt (1981) Doctor Albert Wander Prize for migrant AG in Bern (1984) Cothenius Medal of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina (1993) Exhibit "Brace Globe and Correlation Analysis" (with Werner Reichardt) in the Deutsches Museum Bonn (with Werner Reichardt) (1995) Honorary Prize of Culture Award (Reinhold Schneider Prize) of the city of Freiburg (with Helma Hassenstein) (2002).
Politics
Political behavior as a problem of biological anthropology. Young animal and human being in view of comparative ethology.
Membership
Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, since 1961
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, since 1965
Wissenschaftsrat, from 1968 to 1972.
