Gottfried S. Fraenkel: An Appreciation

Abstract

In examining the corpus of G. S. Fraenkel’s achievement, one is struck by the breadth of his subject matter as well as his mastery of the experimental method. It is to honor this diversity of interest that we have bound together in this volume two symposia of very different thematic content. However, even these titles, insect nutrition and endocrinology, hardly indicate the range of his effort, which encompasses such other areas as invertebrate behavior, coordination of function, temperature adaptation and host selection. Mindful of this large number of very different subjects, we might well derive some interesting insights from an examination of his scientific life and the contexts in which his various contributions were made.