Nikolaas Tinbergen

Niko Tinbergen
Niko Tinbergen
	Tinbergen in 1978
Born	Nikolaas Tinbergen; 15 April 1907; The Hague, Netherlands
Died	21 December 1988 (aged 81); Oxford, England
Alma mater	Leiden University
Known for	One of the founders of ethology; Hawk/goose effect; Tinbergen's four questions;
Spouse	Elisabeth Rutten (1912–1988)
Children	5
Awards	FRS (1962); Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1973);
	Scientific career
Fields	Zoology; Ethology;
Institutions	University of Oxford
Doctoral advisor	Hilbrand Boschma
Doctoral students	John Michael Cullen; Marian Dawkins; Richard Dawkins; Iain Douglas-Hamilton; Aubrey Manning; Desmond Morris; Anthony Sinclair;

Nikolaas "Niko" Tinbergen FRS (/ˈtɪnbɜːrɡən/; Dutch: [ˈnikoːlaːs ˈnikoː ˈtɪnbɛrɣən]; 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.

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