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Nikolaas Tinbergen Dies; Nobel Laureate in 1973
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Dr. Nikolaas (Niko) Tinbergen, 81, a Dutch-born British zoologist
who was a pioneer in the field of ethology and who was a cowinner of
the 1973 Nobel Prize for medicine and physiology, died Dec. 21 at his
home in Oxford, England, after a stroke.
He gained prominence in the late 1930s as a founder of ethology,
the branch of zoology that studies animal behavior. He was awarded
the Nobel, along with fellow ethologists Karl von Frisch and Konrad
Lorenz, for work in promoting the controversial theory, which is the
core of ethology, that behavior is controlled through instinct and
environment.
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