Nikolaas Tinbergen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Nikolaas Tinbergen

Dutch Zoologist, ethologist

Date of Birth: 15-Apr-1907

Place of Birth: The Hague, County of Holland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 21-Dec-1988

Profession: physician, professor, zoologist, biologist, ornithologist, university teacher, ethologist

Nationality: United Kingdom, Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Nikolaas "Niko" Tinbergen (; Dutch: ['niko?la?s 'niko? 't?nb?r??n]; 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 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.