Nikolaas Tinbergen - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1973
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Nikolaas Tinbergen

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1973
for their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns
Together with: Karl von Frisch, Konrad Lorenz
Citizenship
United KingdomUnited KingdomKingdom of the NetherlandsKingdom of the Netherlands
Languages
English, Dutch
date of birth
4/15/1907
place of birth
The Hague
date of death
12/21/1988
place of death
Oxford
Lived
81 years

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occupation
  • ornithologist
  • university teacher
  • ethologist
  • photographer
  • zoologist
  • biologist
  • scientist
field of work
  • ornithology
  • ethology
educated at
  • Leiden University
  • Stedelijk Gymnasium Haarlem
employer
  • Leiden University
    • start time: 4/18/1939
  • Leiden University
    • start time: 1/23/1947
    • end time: 6/16/1949
  • University of Oxford
member of
  • Royal Society of London
    • start time: 3/25/1962
  • Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1974
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
doctoral student
  • Hans Kruuk
    • academic major: biology
  • Colin Gordon Beer
  • Desmond Morris
  • Richard Dawkins
  • David McFarland
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