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Harald was a rare combination of physicist, animal behaviorist, and neurobiologist. He developed his interest in physics, especially electronics, at a young age in Germany when he tinkered with anything electronic discarded from the ongoing war. He developed his love of biology while studying with Professor Karl von Frisch. During von Frisch’s 1973 Nobel speech, he specifically credited Harald for his assistance in deciphering how bees communicated using the waggle dance. Harald’s work on bee behavior continued throughout his career. In the summer, it was common to see Harald in the library quad training bees to sugar water to further decipher their communication. This typically attracted many onlookers, to whom Harald generously and patiently explained what he was doing and why. Even after his official retirement from ND in 2005, he spent considerable time working with bee researchers in Australia and Germany. Harald was also an excellent neurobiologist. He was one of the first individuals to make intracellular recordings of action potentials from extremely small nerve cells. He remarkably obtained data from cricket brain cells that colleagues in the field had told him were impossible to measure because of their small size. He greatly enjoyed working with and inspiring students in his laboratory. For example, he and Ph.D. student Steven Kogge conducted seminal work on the physiology of asynchronous flight muscles in hornets, showing how neural inputs enabled these muscles to power the wings at frequencies of a stunning and unappreciated 200-300 beats per second. With Ph.D. student Franz Goller, Harald illustrated how temperature-induced malfunction of synapses between motor neurons and flight muscles of several insect species accounted for the inability of the insects to fly at certain temperature extremes. In addition, Harald was also the first person in Biology to routinely use computers (initially the mainframe, the only computer at that time at ND) that enabled him to capture and analyze the huge data sets resulting from his neural work.
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The Biology of Social Insectspp.347-351, (2019)
Honeybee Neurobiology and Behaviorpp.53-64, (2011)
Harald Esch, John E. Burns
Journal of Comparative Physiology B-biochemical Systemic and Environmental Physiologyno. 8 (1994): 621-625
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#Papers: 46
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H-Index: 23
G-Index: 42
Sociability: 3
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