BIOLOGIST

Nikolaas Tinbergen

1907 - 1988

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Nikolaas "Niko" Tinbergen ( TIN-bur-gən, Dutch: [ˈnikoː(laːs) ˈtɪmbɛrɣə(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 the organization and elicitation of individual and social behavior patterns in animals. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nikolaas Tinbergen has received more than 534,659 page views. His biography is available in 57 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). Nikolaas Tinbergen is the 57th most popular biologist (down from 43rd in 2019), the 78th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 61st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Dutch Biologist.

Nikolaas Tinbergen was a Dutch ethologist and ornithologist who is most famous for his study of the natural behavior of animals.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Nikolaas Tinbergen ranks 57 out of 1,097. Before him are Hugo Theorell, Albert Claude, Jean-Henri Fabre, François Jacob, Sylvia Earle, and Hugo de Vries. After him are Daniel Bovet, John Edward Gray, Nikolai Vavilov, George Beadle, Adelbert von Chamisso, and Trofim Lysenko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Nikolaas Tinbergen ranks 28. Before him are Lars Ahlfors, Yang Shangkun, Bhagat Singh, Fred Zinnemann, John Bowlby, and Horst Wessel. After him are Sister Lúcia, François Duvalier, Daniel Bovet, Daphne du Maurier, Otto Ohlendorf, and Hans Selye. Among people deceased in 1988, Nikolaas Tinbergen ranks 14. Before him are Kurt Georg Kiesinger, Robert A. Heinlein, Chiang Ching-kuo, Chet Baker, Roy Orbison, and Klaus Fuchs. After him are Trevor Howard, André Frédéric Cournand, Juan Pujol García, Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad, Raymond Carver, and John Holmes.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Nikolaas Tinbergen ranks 78 out of 1,646. Before him are Rob Rensenbrink (1947), Dries van Agt (1931), Dick Advocaat (1947), Peter Canisius (1521), Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (1584), and Hugo de Vries (1848). After him are Petrus Christus (1410), Tobias Asser (1838), Cornelius Jansen (1585), Bernard Mandeville (1670), Edsger W. Dijkstra (1930), and Saskia van Uylenburgh (1612).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Netherlands

Among biologists born in Netherlands, Nikolaas Tinbergen ranks 3. Before him are Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632), and Hugo de Vries (1848). After him are Herman Boerhaave (1668), Jan Swammerdam (1637), Martinus Beijerinck (1851), Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin (1727), Coenraad Jacob Temminck (1778), Pieter Boddaert (1730), Nicolaas Laurens Burman (1734), Pieter Bleeker (1819), and Johannes Burman (1707).

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