Dr. Rudolf J. Schilder

Bernd Heinrich is my academic grandfather and a fairly prolific author. This was the first of his books I read during one of the few true holidays I took during tenure track. It added a new layer of interest to my studies of (mostly) large flying insects, as I came to grips with how many of these generate significant amounts of heat during flight (i.e., their muscle temperatures reach temperatures that would be fatal to us) and how little we know about how their bodies accommodate this.