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Biography of Nikolaas TinbergenName: Nikolaas TinbergenBirth Date: April 15, 1907 Death Date: December 21, 1988 Place of Birth: The Hague, Netherlands Nationality: English Gender: Male Occupations: zoologist, ethologist 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 patterns of behavior in animals.Nikolaas Tinbergen, a zoologist, animal psychologist, and pioneer in the field of ethology (the study of the behavior of animals in relation to their habitat), is most well known for his studies of stimulus-response processes in wasps, fishes, and gulls. He shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine with Austrian zoologists Karl von Frisch and Konrad Lorenz for his work on the organization and causes of social and individual patterns of behavior in animals.The third of five children, Tinbergen was born April 15, 1907, in The Hague, Netherlands, to Dirk Cornelius Tinbergen, a school teacher, and Jeanette van Eek. His older brother Jan studied physics but later turned to economics, winning …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…Modernist Period of English literature1939-1945: World War II1940s-1950s: Abstract Expressionism period in art1957-1975: Vietnam War1982: Falkland WarTinbergen's contemporaries:Julian Huxley (1887-1975) British biologistOmar Bradley (1893-1981) American generalJean Dubuffet (1902-1985) French painterKonrad Lorenz (1903-1989) Austrian zoologist/ethologistGraham Greene (1904-1991) British novelistHoward Hughes (1905-1976) American industrialistNicolae Ceausescu (1918-1989) Rumanian political leaderLeonard Bernstein (1918-1990) American composer/conductorSelected world events:1911: W.C. Durant established Chevrolet Motor Co1923: Yankee Stadium opened in New York1934: Ruth Benedict's Patterns of Culture published1940: Prehistoric drawings discovered in France's Lascaux caves1949: Indonesia gained independence from Netherlands1952: Konrad Lorenz's King Solomon's Ring published1962: Drug Thalidomide found to cause birth defects1975: Saudi Arabia's King Faisal assassinated1984: Britain agreed to return control of Hong Kong to China in 1997 Further Reading booksContemporary Authors, Volume 108, Gale, 1983, pp. 489-90.Nobel Prize Winners, H. W. Wilson, 1987, pp. 1059-61.periodicals"Learning from the Animals," in Newsweek, October 22, 1973, p. 102.Marler, P., and D. R. Griffin, "The 1973 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine," in Science, November 2, 1973, pp. 464-467. |