Tinbergen, Niko(laas)
Tinbergen, Niko(laas) (1907–88) Dutch-born British zoologist and ethologist. Working first at Leiden University, he moved to Oxford in 1947, becoming professor of animal behaviour in 1966. With Konrad
Lorenz he was a pioneer of ethology, working with animals in their natural setting. In later years Tinbergen attempted to apply ethological principles to human beings, especially autistic children. He shared the Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine with Lorenz and Karl von
Frisch.
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Nikolaas Tinbergen Dies; Nobel Laureate in 1973
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 12/24/1988; ; 700+ words
; Dr. Nikolaas (Niko) Tinbergen, 81, a Dutch-born British zoologist...development of behavior." Dr. Tinbergen had done post-doctoral research...write a big book about it." Dr. Tinbergen was known for his tedious, if brilliant...
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NIKOLAAS TINBERGEN NOBEL LAUREATE IN MEDICINE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 12/24/1988; ; 446 words
; OXFORD, England - Nikolaas Tinbergen, a Dutch-born British zoologist...Born in the Hague in 1907, Mr. Tinbergen studied at universities in Leiden...Oxford from 1966 to 1974. Mr. Tinbergen, who became a British citizen in...
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Obituary: Jan Tinbergen
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 6/16/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...died 9 June 1994. JAN TINBERGEN and Ragnar Frisch were the...in 1969. Four years later Tinbergen's younger brother, Nikolaas, shared the Nobel Prize in...academic family into which Jan Tinbergen was born in 1903. After attending...
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Jan Tinbergen Dies; Won First Nobel Prize Awarded in Economics
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 6/14/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...committee. Upon learning of Dr. Tinbergen and Frisch's award, Paul...Much of the work of Dr. Tinbergen and Frisch, which was done...and the Third World. Dr. Tinbergen was born at the Hague and...Netherlands. His younger brother, Nikolaas, who died in 1988, was a...
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CLASSIC ETHOLOGY REAPPRAISED
Magazine article from: Behavior and Philosophy; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...interaction; Uexkiill, Lorenz, Tinbergen, Lehrman Wilson's (1975...development of early ethology: Tinbergen's interest in ecology and Lorenz...the work of Konrad Lorenz and Nikolaas Tinbergen. While acknowledging that the...
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Vocal problems led to technique
Newspaper article from: The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL; 11/25/2002; 519 words
; ...practitioners occurred Dec. 12, 1973. Nikolaas Tinbergen, the Nobel Prize winner for...Technique, lending it credibility. Tinbergen called Alexander's work "one...alexandertechnique.com The landmark Tinbergen speech: Full text available...
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DEATHS IN THE NEWS
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 3/5/1989; 700+ words
; ...in Vienna. He shared the 1973 Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine with Austrian Karl von Frisch and the late Nikolaas Tinbergen. Mr. Lorenz was known for his discovery of a process known as imprinting, or the rapid and almost irreversible...
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OBITUARY: Michael Robinson.(Features)(Obituary)
Newspaper article from: Daily Post (Liverpool, England); 4/29/2008; 646 words
; ...Mike gained a first in biology at the University of Wales, Swansea, and then studied under Nobel prizewinner Nikolaas Tinbergen at Oxford, writing his doctoral thesis on anti-predator adaptations on insects in Panama. He specialised in...
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Michael Robinson, 79; Director Widened Scope of National Zoo
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 3/24/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...University of Wales in 1963 and a doctorate in zoology in 1966 from Oxford, where he studied under the tutelage of Nikolaas Tinbergen, a Dutch animal behaviorist and Nobel Prize-winner. He realized that he was much more interested in studying...
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LIST OF NOBEL WINNERS FOR MEDICINE
News Wire article from: United Press International; 10/4/2004; 700+ words
; ...Duve, Belgium; George E. Palade, United States. 1973 -- Karl von Frisch, Germany; Konrad Lorenz, Austria; Nikolaas Tinbergen, United Kingdom. 1972 -- Gerald M. Edelman, United States; Rodney R. Porter, United Kingdom. 1971 -- Earl...
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Nikolaas Tinbergen
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Nikolaas Tinbergen Nikolaas Tinbergen (1907-1988) is known for his studies of stimulus-response processes in wasps, fishes, and gulls. He shared the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1973 for work on the organization and causes of social and individual...
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Tinbergen, Nikolaas
Book article from: A Dictionary of Ecology
Tinbergen, Nikolaas (1907–88)A Dutch-born, but later British, zoologist...Medicine for studies of animal behaviour under natural conditions. Tinbergen was especially noted for his studies of social organization among gulls...
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Ethology
Book article from: Animal Sciences
...twentieth century: Konrad Lorenz, Nikolaas Tinbergen, and Karl von Frisch. Lorenz...drives: to attack or to flee. Nikolaas Tinbergen began by studying the homing...Scientific Publications, 1993. Tinbergen, Nikolaas. Social Behaviour in Animals...
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Instinct and Learning
Book article from: Science of Everyday Things
...1989) and the Dutch ethologist Nikolaas Tinbergen (1907-1988). In addition...studying male stickleback fish, Tinbergen discovered an excellent example...red stripe on their underside. Tinbergen termed the red stripe a behavioral...
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Behavior
Book article from: Science of Everyday Things
...1989) and the Dutch ethologist Nikolaas Tinbergen (1907-1988). Together with...physiology or medicine. Lorenz and Tinbergen, who together are credited as...stimuli. According to Lorenz and Tinbergen, animals show fixed-action...
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