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Name: Nikolaas Tinbergen
Birth Date: April 15, 1907
Death Date: December 21, 1988
Place of Birth: The Hague, Netherlands
Place of Death: London, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: zoologist, ethologist

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Biography of Nikolaas Tinbergen
1,140 words, approx. 4 pages
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...
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Biography of Nikolaas Tinbergen
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Nikolaas Tinbergen was born April 15, 1907, in The Hague, Netherlands. His older brother Jan studied physics but later turned to economics, winning the first Nobel Prize awarded in that subject in 1969. The Tinbergens lived near the seashore, where...


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Nikolaas Tinbergen Summary
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1907-1988 Zoologist from the Netherlands who conducted a wide range of animal-behavior studies, and is credited as a founder of the field of ethology, the systematic study of the function and evolution of behavior. Tinbergen is widely recognized for...
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Nikolaas Tinbergen Information
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Nikolaas "Niko" Tinbergen (April 15, 1907 – December 21, 1988) was a Dutch ethologist and ornithologist who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Karl von Frisch and Konrad Lorenz for their discoveries concerning organization...


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The Washington Post
Nikolaas Tinbergen Dies; Nobel Laureate in 1973
12/24/1988: 2,983 words, approx. 10 pages
Dr. Nikolaas (Niko) Tinbergen, 81, a Dutch-born British zoologist who was a pioneer in the field of ethology and who was a cowinner of the 1973 Nobel Prize for medicine and physiology, died Dec. 21 at his home in Oxford, England, after a stroke....
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The Boston Globe
Nikolaas Tinbergen Nobel Laureate In Medicine
12/24/1988: 244 words, approx. 1 pages
OXFORD, England - Nikolaas Tinbergen, a Dutch-born British zoologist who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1973, has died of an apparent stroke, his widow said yesterday. He was 81. Elizabeth A. Rutten said in a telephone interview that her husband of...
 


 

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