biography
| name: |
Tinbergen, Nikolaas
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pronunciation:
[tinbergen]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1907–88)
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| biography:
| Ethologist, born in The Hague, The Netherlands, the brother of Jan Tinbergen. He graduated in zoology at Leyden, and later taught there, and from 1947 at Oxford. His major concern was with the patterns of animal behaviour in nature, showing that many are stereotyped. His research covered several species, in relation to camouflage, learning behaviour, courtship, and aggression, and he also studied autism in children. He shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1973. |
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