Tinbergen, Niko(laas)

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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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