Nikolaas Tinbergen, Ph.D.

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1973
Co-nobelist Karl von Frisch, Konrad Lorenz

Biologist - Ornithologist. Discovered â€˜organization and elicitation of individual and social behavior patternsâ€™. Sticklebacks fish. Bee wolf, a digger wasp, Philanthus Triangulum. Adventurous. Elder brother Jan Tinbergen is Economics Nobelist, 1969, the first year the Economics prize was awarded. Both awarded at age 66yrs.

Medal, Cash and Philanthropy

Nikolaas Tinbergen used his Nobel Prize money to help others conduct research. To help the Hooke Library buy books, he donated £1000. The Hooke Library is the lending library of Oxford University for science subjects. It is named after the 17th century Oxford scientist, Robert Hooke.

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Name: Nikolaas "Niko" Tinbergen
Birth: 15 April 1907, The Hague, The Netherands
Death: 21 December, 1988, Oxford, United Kingdom
Institution: Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Award: "for their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns"
Portion of Cash: 1/3
Education: Biology - Leiden University, Leiden Netherlands
Ph,D, thesis "Über die Orienterlung dis Beinenwolfes" (On the orientation of the bee wolf), 1932
Nobel Prize Cash and Philanthropy
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