// Workers AI · dad joke modeWho's Otto Egon Lowenstein? Low and behold, a scientist.

This article is about the zoologist. For the neuropsychiatrist, see Otto Lowenstein.

Otto Egon Lowenstein FRSE (24 October 1906 – 31 January 1999) was a German-born zoologist. He did extensive studies on the labyrinth of the ears of fish.

Life

He was born in Munich on 24 October 1906, to a Jewish family. He studied Sciences at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. He was taught Zoology by Karl von Frisch. He continued to postgraduate level gaining a PhD in 1932.

In 1933, he left Germany and went to Britain. He began as a research student at the University of Birmingham, gaining a second PhD in 1937. In that year he took a post as Assistant Lecturer in Zoology at the University of Exeter. In 1938, he went to the University of Glasgow as a Lecturer under Prof Edward Hindle. In 1952, he was given a professorship at the University of Birmingham.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1947. His proposers were Maurice Yonge, Charles Wynford Parsons, John Walton and George Wyburn. In 1955, he was also elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London.

He retired in 1974. He died on 31 January 1999.

Family

In 1937, he married Elsa Ritter. He secondly married Gunilla Dohlman (d.1981). He finally (aged 80) married Maureen McKernan in 1986.