Awards & Winners

Nikolaas Tinbergen

Date of Birth 15-April-1907
Place of Birth The Hague
(South Holland, Kingdom of the Netherlands, Netherlands)
Nationality Netherlands
Also know as Niko Tinbergen
Nikolaas "Niko" Tinbergen FRS was a Dutch ethologist 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 the 1960s, he collaborated with filmmaker Hugh Falkus on a series of wildlife films, including The Riddle of the Rook and Signals for Survival, which won the Italia prize in that year and the American blue ribbon in 1971.

Awards by Nikolaas Tinbergen

Check all the awards nominated and won by Nikolaas Tinbergen.

1973


Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
(for their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns)