Niko Tinbergen
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| Born | Nikolaas Tinbergen 15 April 1907 The Hague, Netherlands |
| Died | 21 December 1988 (aged 81) Oxford, England |
| Residence | United Kingdom |
| Nationality | Dutch |
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| Institutions | University of Oxford |
| Alma mater | Leiden University |
| Doctoral advisor | Hildebrand Boschma |
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| Spouse | Elisabeth Rutten (1912-1990) |
| Children | 5 |
Nikolaas 'Niko' Tinbergen FRS (/ˈtɪnbɜːrɡən/; Dutch pronunciation: [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 organization and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns in animals.
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.
Born in The Hague, Netherlands, he was one of five children of Dirk Cornelis Tinbergen and his wife Jeannette van Eek. His brother, Jan Tinbergen, won the first Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 1969. Another brother, Luuk Tinbergen was also a noted biologist.
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