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Niko Tinbergen

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Also known as Nikolaas Tinbergen, N. Tinbergen, N Tinbergen, Tinbergen, Tinbergen N, Tinbergen N.

Dutch Zoologist, ethologist (1907-1988)

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Nikolaas Tinbergen was born on 15 April 1907 and died on 21 December 1988. He was recognized as a Nobel Laureate, receiving one Nobel Prize.

His work is included in several institutional collections. He is recognized in the Royal Society collection. He is also recognized in the Nobel Laureates collection. Additionally, he is recognized in the Nobel Medicine collection. Finally, he is recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1973

    “for their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Gender
male
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Place of birth
The Hague
Place of death
Oxford
Sibling
Luuk Tinbergen
Occupation
scientist
Employer
University of Oxford
Languages spoken
Dutch
Field of work
ornithology
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Nikolaas Tinbergen 1978.jpg
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member of
National Academy of Sciences
Commons category
Nikolaas Tinbergen
date of birth
1907-04-15
date of death
1988-12-21
student
Richard Dawkins
has works in the collection
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
P6944
Niko Tinbergen
P8168
Richard C. Byrd
has characteristic
Nobel disease
medical condition
major depressive disorder
interested in
ethology
archives at
Nationaal Archief
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Encyclopedic overview

Nikolaas "Niko" Tinbergen FRS (/ˈtɪnbɜːrɡən/ TIN-bur-gən, Dutch: [ˈnikoː(laːs) ˈtɪmbɛrɣə(n)]; 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 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 behaviour.

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.

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