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Jürgen Boeckh (1934–2023) and Vera Boeckh, née von Zwehl (1928– 2022): pioneers of sensory physiology and neuroethology

dc.date.accessioned2024-09-20T11:50:37Z
dc.date.available2024-09-20T11:50:37Z
dc.date.issued2024-06-18
dc.identifierdoi:10.17170/kobra-2024092010862
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/16052
dc.description.sponsorshipGefördert im Rahmen des Projekts DEAL
dc.language.isoeng
dc.rightsNamensnennung 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.subjectObituaryeng
dc.subjectGerman professorseng
dc.subjectCareers of woman scientistseng
dc.subjectPostwar periodeng
dc.subject.ddc570
dc.subject.ddc590
dc.titleJürgen Boeckh (1934–2023) and Vera Boeckh, née von Zwehl (1928– 2022): pioneers of sensory physiology and neuroethologyeng
dc.typeAufsatz
dcterms.abstractJürgen Boeckh, a respected pioneer of insect olfaction died shortly after his beloved wife Vera Boeckh, née von Zwehl, who pioneered insect vision. Both met in 1958, at the Zoological Institute in Munich. There, Jürgen worked in the group of his PhD advisor Dietrich Schneider, while Vera finished her PhD with Werner Jacobs before she joined the group of Hansjochem Autrum. There, Vera characterized the spectral sensitivity of bee photoreceptors, laying the physiological foundation of Karl von Frisch´s behavioral experiments with bee color vision. Meanwhile, Jürgen focused on the physiological characterization of insect antennal olfactory sensilla. In 1962 Vera and Jürgen married in Munich. Sadly, but characteristic of German woman at these times, Vera´s career ended after her marriage, while Jürgen moved with his mentor Schneider to the Max Planck Institute of Behavioral Physiology in Seewiesen near Munich, which became a famous cradle of insect neuroethology. Vera accompanied and supported her husband Jürgen´s career during his scientific Wanderschaft which ended in 1969, when Jürgen received a full professorship at the University of Regensburg. There, Jürgen became an accomplished German professor, focusing on insect olfaction from peripheral sensory transduction to information processing in the brain´s antennal lobe. After Jürgens retirement in 2000 they moved to Hopfen, Enzensberg near Füssen, where they enjoyed happy years together, before especially Vera´s health deteriorated. Both died shortly after one another during the Corona pandemic. We lost a remarkable couple of insect scientists that will be remembered as pioneers of sensory physiology and neuroethology.eng
dcterms.accessRightsopen access
dcterms.creatorStengl, Monika
dc.relation.doidoi:10.1007/s00359-024-01710-9
dc.subject.swdFrauger
dc.subject.swdKarriereger
dc.subject.swdWissenschaftger
dc.subject.swdHochschullehrerger
dc.subject.swdNachkriegszeitger
dc.subject.swdNachrufger
dc.subject.swdDeutschland
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dcterms.source.identifiereissn:1432-1351
dcterms.source.issueIssue 5
dcterms.source.journalJournal of Comparative Physiology Aeng
dcterms.source.pageinfo825 - 833
dcterms.source.volumeVolume 210
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