Konrad Lorenz - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1973
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Konrad Lorenz

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1973
for their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns
Citizenship
AustriaAustria
Languages
German
date of birth
11/7/1903
place of birth
Vienna
date of death
2/27/1989
place of death
Vienna
Lived
85 years
occupation
  • university teacher
  • ethologist
  • naturalist
  • psychologist
  • director
  • zoologist
  • writer
  • physician
  • philosopher
  • scientist
field of work
  • philosophy
  • ethology
educated at
  • University of Vienna
    • academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
    • academic major: zoology
    • end time: 1933
  • University of Vienna
    • academic degree: Doctor of Medicine
    • start time: 1923
    • end time: 1928
  • Columbia University
    • academic degree: undergraduate education
    • academic major: medicine
    • start time: 1922
    • end time: 1923
employer
  • University of Vienna
  • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
  • University of Königsberg
position held
  • psychologist
work location
  • Munich
  • University of Königsberg
    • start time: 8/31/1940
member of
  • Royal Society of London
  • Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1966
  • Austrian Academy of Sciences
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1974
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
  • Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
doctoral student
  • Gertraud Kühnelt
notable work
  • On Aggression
  • Behind the Mirror: A Search for a Natural History of Human Knowledge
  • Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins
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