Person Tinbergen; Nikolaas (1907 - 1988) Tinbergen Nikolaas Niko 1907 - 1988 Dutch Male 15/04/1907 19070415 21/12/1988 19881221

Biologist Animal behaviour Ethology Zoology Human behaviour Autism Medals and prizes: Nobel Prize (Physiology or Medicine) 1973 Son of Dirk Cornelis Tinbergen and his wife Jeannette van Eek.; Married Elisabeth 'Lies' Rutten (1932); Brother of Jan Tinbergen, nobel prize winning economist; Uncle of Joost Tinbergen who also worked as one of his researchers Nikolaas 'Niko' Tinbergen, Dutch biologist, ornithologist and animal behaviourist, was born 15 April 1907 and died 21 December 1988. He is regarded as one of the founders of modern ethology; the study of animal behaviour. In 1973 he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Karl von Frisch and Konrad Lorenz for their discoveries concerning organisation and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns in animals. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1962. Tinbergen moved from Leiden to England in 1949 and taught at the University of Oxford where he was a fellow first at Merton College and later at Wolfson College. In 1951, he published 'The Study of Instinct', an influential book on animal behaviour. In the 1960s and 70s, he collaborated with filmmaker Hugh Falkus on a series of wildlife films, including The Riddle of the Rook (1972) and Signals for Survival (1969). He was appointed Professor of Animal Behaviour in 1966 and retired in 1974. At Oxford Tinbergen built up 'The Animal Behaviour Research Group' which had a profound influence on the development of ethology round the world. In particular, his research focused on the adaptedness of behaviour; work on the herring gull he had initiated in the Netherlands developed into comparative studies of many gull species. The Group had a field base at Walney Island. Several of his graduate students went on to become prominent biologists including Richard Dawkins FRS, Marian Dawkins, Desmond Morris, Iain Douglas-Hamilton, Bill Hamilton, John Krebs FRS, Mike Cullen and Tony Sinclair. Tinbergen also applied his observational methods to the problems of autistic children. After retiring from Oxford University in 1974, he and his wife, Lies Tinbergen, collaborated on a study of childhood autism publishing 'Autistic Children - new hope for a cure' in 1983. Lectures: Croonian 1972 Fellow 25/03/1962 54 AssocMaterial: Catalogues NCUACS 27/3/9; NCUACS 79/8/98; NCUACS 163/6/08. Papers deposited in the Department of Western Manuscripts, Bodleian Library, Oxford Obituaries: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1990 vol 36 pp 547-565, plate, by R A Hinde International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Library of Congress Subject Headings 15 Apr 1907 - 21 Dec 1988 NA1869 21/11/2001 Andyg Martind 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes b5ea3fba-ac29-48b7-abda-82808a0af831