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...FRISCH...
More than 20 years ago, Dr. Karl von Frisch, topflight bee authority, thought of a way to test the bee's remarkable sense of time. He knew that if sugar water is offered to bees at a fixed hour, they will sally forth every day just in time to get it. They do not judge time by the sun, as was proved by putting the hive in an artificially lighted room, but there was a chance that some more subtle local influence might keep them on schedule...
...Frisch decided that the way to eliminate all such influences, suspected and unsuspected, would be to train bees to feed at a definite hour and then move them quickly to a distant part of the earth. If they continued to feed by the local time of their old home, it would prove that they have a timekeeping mechanism as independent as a wrist watch...
...experiment was once difficult because ocean-going ships cannot move fast enough to carry bees a sufficient distance between daily feeding periods. Modern airliners can. This year Von Frisch's associates, Dr. Max Renner and Dr. Werner Loher, prepared for the great experiment. With the help of Dr. Theodore C. Schneirla of New York's American Museum of Natural History (Dr. Schneirla is an ant man, but he doubles in bees), they built two identical sunless bee-testing rooms: one in Paris, one in New York. Then they trained a hive of bees in Paris to feed from...
...David H. Frisch, assistant professor of Physics at M.I.T. and one of the signers of the Times letter, said last night that Oppenheimer impressed him at Los Alamos as slightly conservative. "We young scientists were all for international control of atomic energy," Frisch recalled, "and Oppy struck us as being exceptionally cautious on the subject of trusting Russia...