IN MEMORY OF

Prof. Shimon Fritz Bodenheimer

1897 - 1959

Entomologist and zoologist. Immigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1922. 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