Nikolaas Tinbergen
Dutch zoologist and ethologist (1907–1988) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Nikolaas "Niko" Tinbergen FRS[1] (/ˈtɪnbɜːrɡən/; Dutch: [ˈnikoːlaːs ˈnikoː ˈtɪnbɛrɣən]; 15 April 1907 – 21 December 1988) was a Dutch biologist and ornithologist who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Karl von Frisch and Konrad Lorenz[7][8][9][10][11] for their discoveries concerning the organization and elicitation of individual and social behavior patterns in animals. He is regarded as one of the founders of modern ethology, the study of animal behavior.
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Born | Nikolaas Tinbergen (1907-04-15)15 April 1907 The Hague, Netherlands |
Died | 21 December 1988(1988-12-21) (aged 81) Oxford, England |
Alma mater | Leiden University |
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Spouse | Elisabeth Rutten (1912–1988) |
Children | 5 |
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Institutions | University of Oxford |
Doctoral advisor | Hilbrand Boschma[2] |
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In 1951, he published The Study of Instinct, an influential book on animal behaviour. In the 1960s, he collaborated with filmmaker Hugh Falkus on a series of wildlife films, including The Riddle of the Rook (1972) and Signals for Survival (1969), which won the Italia prize in that year and the American blue ribbon in 1971.