Roman Wojtusiak
Roman Józef Wojtusiak (28 December 1906–5 December 1987) was a Polish zoologist and professor at the
animal psychology
and behaviour. Along with his students and collaborators he established a laboratory that conducted extensive experimentation on the ability of animals to see colour, sense geomagnetism, and radio waves. He was also a pioneer of underwater biological studies.
Born to Roman, an official of the Polish Railways, and his wife Karolina, who worked in the armed forces, he studied in his home town of
née Franckiewicz (who was a researcher on plant ecology) wrote to Karl von Frisch and Alfred Kühn to intervene. When Kühn was in Göttingen, Wojtusiak had met a student named Walter Greite who later became an officer in the SS in the Ahnenerbe. Greite helped release Wojtusiak (on 8 September 1940) at the behest of Karl von Frisch.[1] He worked from 1941 to 1952 as curator of the museum at Kraków. After the war he became and adjunct professor and from 1946 a full-time associate professor in the department that was later called the department of zoopsychology and animal ethology. He became a professor of zoology in 1948 and he worked at the Jagiellonian University until his retirement in 1976.[2]
Wojtusiak's contributions were very diverse and included studies in
Zygaena filipendulae wojtusiaki, were named after him. His son Janusz Wojtusiak
also became a zoologist.
Publications
A selection of publications:
- Dabrowska, Barbara; Harmata, Wincenty; Lenkiewicz, Zofia; Schiffer, Zofia; Wojtusiak, Roman J (1981). "Colour perception in cows". Behavioural Processes. 6 (1): 1–10. S2CID 37212044.
- Wojtusiak, Roman J. (1949-02-01). "Polish investigations on homing in birds and their orientation in space". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. 160 (2): 99–108. ISSN 0370-0461.
- Wojtusiak, R J; Z Majlert; H Franckiewicz; W Harmata (1980). "Homing experiments on birds. Part XV. The influence of radio waves on the homingof swallows (Hirundo rustica L.)". Folia Biol (Kraków). 28 (2): 127–144.
- Wojtusiak, R.J. (1933). "Über den Farbensinn der Schildkröten [The colour sense of turtles]". Zeitschrift für vergleichende Physiologie. 18 (3): 393–436. S2CID 39592414.
References
- ^ Tania Munz (2016). The Dancing Bees: Karl Von Frisch and the Discovery of the Honeybee Language. University of Chicago Press. pp. 94–95.
- ^ Nowak, Eugeniusz (2005). Wissenschaftler in turbulenten Zeiten. Stock and Stein. pp. 216–218.
- ^ Bursa, A.; Wojtusiak, H.; Wojtusiak, R.J. (1948). "Investigations of the bottom fauna and flora in the Gulf of Gdansk made by using a diving helmet. II". Bull. Acad. Pol. Sci. Lettr., CI. Sci. Math. Nat., Ser. B (II). 1947: 213–239.
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External links
- Biography (in Polish)
- Diving helmet designed by Wojtusiak
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