J'Urgen Tautz

Prof. Dr. Jurgen Tautz, is a bee expert, sociobiologist, animal behaviourist and emeritus professor at the Biozentrum, University of Wurzburg. He is a world-leading scientist with a remarkable number of high class publications and a gifted communicator of science. His writing and popular lectures have twice been honoured by the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) who included him among the best scientists in Europe in communicating science to the public. Furthermore, he received the...See more

Prof. Dr. Jurgen Tautz, is a bee expert, sociobiologist, animal behaviourist and emeritus professor at the Biozentrum, University of Wurzburg. He is a world-leading scientist with a remarkable number of high class publications and a gifted communicator of science. His writing and popular lectures have twice been honoured by the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) who included him among the best scientists in Europe in communicating science to the public. Furthermore, he received the prestigious Communicator Award of the German Research Foundation.As gifted communicator and leading scientist, Juergen Tautz has much in common with Carl Sagan, Richard P Feynman, Konrad Lorenz, Vince Dethier and others famous for their work in popularizing science and making it accessible to all. Dr. David C. Sandeman (Translator): Neurobiologist, retired from the University of New South Wales, Sydney. Multiply awarded, with a long publication list on invertebrate nervous systems, behaviour, physiology, neuroanatomy and neurogenesis in adult organisms. Translated the longseller "Buzz about bees" and the "Honey Factory". See less