Torkel Weis-Fogh
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'''Torkel Weis-Fogh''' ([[1922]]-[[1975]]) was a [[Denmark|Danish]] [[zoologist]].
He was born in [[Aarhus]] and educated at [[Copenhagen University]]. He was research assistant to the Danish Nobel Prize winning physiologist [[August Krogh]], where he began his study of the [[desert locust]]. After Krogh's death in 1949 Weis-Fogh worked in the laboratory until it closed in 1953. He spent a year at the [[Copenhagen Institute of Neurophysiology]], but then moved to [[Cambridge University]] in England for four years. He returned to Copenhagen as Professor of Zoophysiology, before returning to Cambridge in 1966 when he was made [[Professor of Zoology, Cambridge University]].
Torkel Weis-Fogh pioneered studies of insect flight with [[August Krogh]] in this classic paper of 1951. The respiratory exchange of the desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria) before, during and after flight. ''J. Exp. Biol.'' 28,344 -357
==References==
Anonym 1976 [Obituary of Weis-Fogh, T.] ''Acrida'' 5(2)
==External Links==
*[http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/content/full/207/19/3251 Insect flight takes off]
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[[Category:Academics of the University of Cambridge]]
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