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Nikolaas Tinbergen

1907 - 1988

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Nikolaas "Niko" Tinbergen ( TIN-bur-gən, Dutch: [ˈnikoː(laːs) ˈtɪmbɛrɣə(n)]; 15 April 1907 – 21 December 1988) 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. In 1951, he published The Study of Instinct, an influential book on animal behaviour. In the 1960s, he collaborated with filmmaker Hugh Falkus on a series of wildlife films, including The Riddle of the Rook (1972) and Signals for Survival (1969), which won the Italia prize in that year and the American blue ribbon in 1971. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nikolaas Tinbergen is the 48th most popular biologist (up from 57th in 2019), the 51st most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 78th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Dutch Biologist.

Nikolaas Tinbergen was a Dutch ethologist and ornithologist who is most famous for his study of the natural behavior of animals.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Nikolaas Tinbergen ranks 48 out of 1,097. Before him are Karl von Frisch, Ada Yonath, Richard Henderson, Peter Simon Pallas, Harald zur Hausen, and Santiago Ramón y Cajal. After him are Tomas Lindahl, Irwin Rose, Charles Richet, Lazzaro Spallanzani, André Michel Lwoff, and Karl Ernst von Baer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Nikolaas Tinbergen ranks 23. Before him are Baldur von Schirach, Rachel Carson, Laurence Olivier, Frank Whittle, Bhagat Singh, and Yakov Dzhugashvili. After him are Yang Shangkun, Hideki Yukawa, Daniel Bovet, Robert A. Heinlein, Sister Lúcia, and François Duvalier. Among people deceased in 1988, Nikolaas Tinbergen ranks 11. Before him are Luis Walter Alvarez, Nico, John Holmes, Bacha Khan, Ernst Ruska, and Valery Legasov. After him are Kurt Georg Kiesinger, André Frédéric Cournand, Divine, Robert A. Heinlein, Isidor Isaac Rabi, and Chiang Ching-kuo.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Nikolaas Tinbergen ranks 51 out of 1,646. Before him are Jan Tinbergen (1903), James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth (1649), William II of the Netherlands (1792), Jan Steen (1626), Nicolaas Bloembergen (1920), and Max Euwe (1901). After him are Isabelle de Charrière (1740), Ruud Gullit (1962), Frits Zernike (1888), Paul J. Crutzen (1933), Tobias Asser (1838), and Thomas Bernhard (1931).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Netherlands

Among biologists born in Netherlands, Nikolaas Tinbergen ranks 2. Before him are Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632). After him are Hugo de Vries (1848), Herman Boerhaave (1668), Coenraad Jacob Temminck (1778), Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin (1727), Jan Swammerdam (1637), Martinus Beijerinck (1851), Pieter Boddaert (1730), Nicolaas Laurens Burman (1734), Pieter Bleeker (1819), and Wilhem de Haan (1801).

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