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Shimon Fritz Bodenheimer


Shimon Fritz Bodenheimer (Hebrew שמעון פריץ בודנהיימר) (June 6, 1897 - October 4, 1959) was an Israeli entomologist and zoologist.

Bodenheimer was born in Germany. His parents were Max Bodenheimer, a leading Zionist, and Rosa Dalberg. He immigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1922 and joined the new agricultural experimental station near Tel Aviv. When the Hebrew University opened, he was appointed head of the Institute of zoology and Entomology. In 1936, Bodenheimer published The Biological Background of the Human Population Theory based on university lectures he gave in Tel Aviv.

In 1954, Bodenheimer was awarded the Israel Prize, in agriculture.



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