He determined its habits by elegant experiments, and showed that the rhythm which controls many of its activities arises in the oesophagus.
Goodstein notes that he was impressed by a "particularly elegant, well designed experiment" and warns that by ignoring such results "science is not functioning normally."
These are part of an on-going series of elegant experiments.
These as well as many other extremely elegant experiments are possible, including those tailored to the needs of a given system.
By making use of bees associative learning abilities he performed an elegant experiment to show that honey bees were in fact capable of color discrimination.
It means that someone is going to have to do a very elegant and difficult experiment to test this.
In an elegant experiment, Esch and Burns (1995) tapped into the bees' dance language to access their subjective assessment of flight distance.
An elegant experiment, but technically quite challenging.
The era of genetics began with some simple but elegant experiments on garden peas conducted by the 19th-century Moravian friar Gregor Mendel.
Loewi performed a very simple yet elegant experiment.