The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1973
Awarded on: 1973-10-11
"for their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns"
Affiliations:
- University of Oxford – Oxford, United Kingdom
Nikolaas Tinbergen
Born: 1907-04-15 in the Hague, the Netherlands
Gender: male
Field: Dutch zoologist and ethologist (1907–1988)
Biography
Nikolaas "Niko" Tinbergen was a Dutch biologist and ornithologist who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Karl von Frisch and Konrad Lorenz for their discoveries concerning the organization and elicitation of individual and social behavior patterns in animals. He is regarded as one of the founders of modern ethology, the study of animal behavior.