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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1977 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1968 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Gottfried Fraenkel was affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Throughout their career, they contributed to the academic community as a researcher recognized by major scientific institutions.

Fraenkel held the distinction of being a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 1977. Additionally, they became a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1968.

The profile does not list specific research areas, subfields, or topics of study directly attributed to Fraenkel. No information is available regarding publications, co-authors, or venues frequently associated with their work.

The scientist is deceased, and thus all references to their career and achievements are made in the past tense.

Best Publications

  • The Raison d'Être of Secondary Plant Substances: These odd chemicals arose as a means of protecting plants from insects and now guide insects to food

    Gottfried S. Fraenkel

  • The orientation of animals

    Gottfried Samuel Fraenkel

  • The orientation of animals, kineses, taxes and compass reactions

    Gottfried Samuel Fraenkel;Donald L. Gunn

  • Bursicon, a hormone which mediates tanning of the cuticle in the adult fly and other insects

    G. Fraenkel;Catherine Hsiao

  • EVALUATION OF OUR THOUGHTS ON SECONDARY PLANT SUBSTANCES

    G. Fraenkel

  • The structure of insect cuticles.

    G. Fraenkel;K. M. Rudall

  • The consumption, digestion, and utilization of food plants by a polyphagous insect, Prodenia eridania (Cramer)

    C.F. Soo Hoo;G. Fraenkel

  • Pupariation and Pupation in Cyclorrhaphous Flies (Diptera): Terminology and Interpretation

    G. Fraenkel;G. Bhaskaran

  • A study of the physical and chemical properties of the insect cuticle

    Gottfried Fraenkel;K. M. Rudall

  • Hormonal and nervous control of tanning in the fly.

    G. Fraenkel;Catherine Hsiao

  • A Hormone Causing Pupation in the Blowfly Calliphora erythrocephala

    Gottfried Fraenkel

  • Reversible enzymatic acetylation of carnitine.

    S. Friedman;G. Fraenkel

  • Rates and cycles of oxygen consumption during pupal diapause in Sarcophaga flesh flies

    D.L. Denlinger;J.H. Willis;G. Fraenkel

  • THE PROCESS BY WHICH THE PUPARIA OF MANY SPECIES OF FLIES BECOME FIXED TO A SUBSTRATE

    G. Fraenkel;Victor J. Brookes

  • The effect of scorpion venom on blowfly larvae-a new method for the evaluation of scorpion venoms potency.

    E. Zlotkin;G. Fraenkel;F. Miranda;S. Lissitzky

  • Linoleic acid, vitamin E and other fat-soluble substances in the nutrition of certain insects, Ephestia kuehniella, E. elutella, E. cautella and Plodia interpunctella (Lep.).

    G. Fraenkel;M. Blewett

  • Morphological and endocrinological aspects of pupal diapause in a fleshfly, Sarcophaga agryrostoma

    G. Fraenkel;Catherine Hsiao

  • The specificity of the tobacco hornworm, Protoparce sexta, to solanaceous plants.

    Robert T. Yamamoto;G. S. Fraenkel

  • Manifestations of a pupal diapause in two species of flies, Sarcophaga argyrostoma and S. bullata☆

    G. Fraenkel;Catherine Hsiao

  • Biological Sciences: Halteres of Flies as Gyroscopic Organs of Equilibrium

    G. Fraenkel;J. W. S. Pringle

Frequent Co-Authors

Rachel Galun
Rachel Galun Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Eliahu Zlotkin
Eliahu Zlotkin Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Konrad Bloch
Konrad Bloch Harvard University

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