Bert Höelldobler

Faculty facts

First name

Bert

Last name

Höelldobler

Academic title and academic unit

Professor The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Web Directory link

https://search.asu.edu/profile/719258

Status

Emeritus

Award details

Distinguished memberships and honors

American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows 1980

Highly prestigious awards

Pulitzer Prize General Nonfiction Category 1991

American Academy of Arts and Sciences Academy Fellow 1974

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Guggenheim Fellow 1979

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Humboldt Research Award 1987

Phi Beta Kappa Book Awards Phi Beta Kappa Book Award in Science 1995

National Academy of Sciences Member 1998

American Philosophical Society Member 1997

Faculty spotlight

Spotlight title

National Academy of Sciences member Pulitzer Prize winner

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Bio summary

Bert Hölldobler received a Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal in 1991 for "The Ants," coauthored with E. O. Wilson, and was honored by the National Academy of Sciences for his work in social dynamics and complexity.

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Bert Hölldobler with a camera on the ground.

Bio

Bert Höelldobler is Foundation Professor of Life Sciences in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the Arizona State University. He is a sociobiologist and an evolutionary biologist who studies the evolution of social organization in insects. He and his research team explore the behavioral mechanisms that underlie communication and division of labor systems in ant societies. He founded the Social Insect Research Group at ASU with Provost Emeritus Robert E. Page Jr. and the Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity. He has authored more than 300 research publications and six books. His work “The Ants,” which he co-authored with E. O. Wilson, received the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction writing in 1991. He came to ASU from Cornell University, where he was the Andrew E. White Professor at Large. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.