Niko Tinbergen

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Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine biologist ethologist human

Niko Tinbergen was a pioneering Dutch ethologist and Nobel Prize–winning biologist known for his foundational work on animal behavior and the formulation of the four questions framework in ethology.

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Label	Occurrences
Nikolaas Tinbergen	8
Niko Tinbergen canonical	6

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine ⓘ biologist ⓘ ethologist ⓘ human ⓘ
academicDegree	PhD ⓘ
awardReceived	Foreign Member of the Royal Society ⓘ Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ⓘ Royal Medal ⓘ
citizenship	Netherlands ⓘ
countryOfBirth	Netherlands ⓘ
countryOfDeath	United Kingdom ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1907-04-15 ⓘ
dateOfDeath	1988-12-21 ⓘ
doctoralAdvisor	Jan Verwey ⓘ
educatedAt	University of Leiden ⓘ surface form: Leiden University
employer	University of Leiden ⓘ University of Oxford ⓘ
familyName	Tinbergen ⓘ
fieldOfWork	animal behavior ⓘ behavioral biology ⓘ ethology ⓘ
fourQuestionsComponent	adaptation (function) ⓘ causation (mechanism) ⓘ ontogeny (development) ⓘ phylogeny (evolution) ⓘ
givenName	Nikolaas ⓘ
knownFor	formulation of the four questions in ethology ⓘ foundational work in ethology ⓘ research on animal communication and signaling ⓘ studies of gull behavior ⓘ studies of innate behavior and fixed action patterns ⓘ work on supernormal stimuli ⓘ
languageSpoken	Dutch ⓘ English ⓘ
nationality	Dutch ⓘ
NobelPrizeCategory	Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ⓘ surface form: Physiology or Medicine
NobelPrizeMotivation	discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behavior patterns in animals ⓘ
NobelPrizeSharedWith	Karl von Frisch ⓘ Konrad Lorenz ⓘ
NobelPrizeYear	1973 ⓘ
notableWork	Social Behaviour in Animals ⓘ The Study of Instinct ⓘ
numberOfChildren	5 ⓘ
placeOfBirth	The Hague ⓘ
placeOfDeath	Oxford ⓘ
relative	Jan Tinbergen ⓘ
sexOrGender	male ⓘ
sibling	Jan Tinbergen ⓘ
spouse	Elisabeth Amelie Rutten ⓘ
workLocation	Leiden ⓘ Oxford ⓘ

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Robert Hinde → influencedBy → Niko Tinbergen ⓘ

Jan Tinbergen → sibling → Niko Tinbergen ⓘ

Richard Dawkins → doctoralAdvisor → Niko Tinbergen ⓘ