Editing Bert Hölldobler (section)

==Biography==
Hölldobler was born June 25, 1936, in [[Erling-Andechs]], Bavaria, Germany;<ref name="FischerFischer2002">{{cite book|author1=Heinz Dietrich Fischer|author2=Erika J. Fischer|title=Complete Biographical Encyclopedia of Pulitzer Prize Winners, 1917-2000: Journalists, Writers and Composers on Their Ways to the Coveted Awards|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-2o4Ywn4LJwC&pg=PA108|year=2002|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|isbn=978-3-598-30186-5|pages=108–}}</ref> he was the son of Karl and Maria Hölldobler. He studied biology and chemistry at the [[University of Würzburg]]. His doctoral thesis was on the social behavior of the male [[carpenter ant]] and their role in the organization of carpenter ant societies. He was named professor of zoology at the [[Goethe University Frankfurt|University of Frankfurt]] in 1971. From 1973 to 1990, he was professor of biology and the [[Alexander Agassiz]] Professor of Zoology at [[Harvard University]] in [[Cambridge (Massachusetts)|Cambridge]], Massachusetts. In 1989, he returned to Germany to accept the chair of behavioral physiology and sociobiology  at the Theodor-Boveri-Institute of the University of Würzburg. From 2002 to 2008 Hölldobler was an Andrew D. White Professor at Large at [[Cornell University]] in Ithaca, New York. Since his retirement in 2004 Hölldobler has worked as a research professor in the School of Life Sciences at [[Arizona State University]] in [[Tempe, Arizona]]. There he is one of the founders of the Social Insect Research Group (SIRG) and the Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity.