1907 - 1988
Nikolaas "Niko" Tinbergen (; Dutch: [ˈnikoːlaːs ˈnikoː ˈtɪnbɛrɣən]; 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 502,406 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Nikolaas Tinbergen is the 43rd most popular biologist (down from 36th in 2019), the 61st most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 55th in 2019) and the 2nd 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, Nikolaas Tinbergen ranks 43 out of 841. Before him are Lazzaro Spallanzani, Christian de Duve, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Ada Yonath, Jan Evangelista Purkyně, and Richard Owen. After him are René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, August Weismann, Matthias Jakob Schleiden, Karl Ernst von Baer, Robert Edwards, and Hans Spemann.
1729 - 1799
HPI: 66.61
Rank: 37
1917 - 2013
HPI: 66.33
Rank: 38
1947 - Present
HPI: 66.32
Rank: 39
1939 - Present
HPI: 66.18
Rank: 40
1787 - 1869
HPI: 66.15
Rank: 41
1804 - 1892
HPI: 66.14
Rank: 42
1907 - 1988
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 43
1683 - 1757
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 44
1834 - 1914
HPI: 65.87
Rank: 45
1804 - 1881
HPI: 65.79
Rank: 46
1792 - 1876
HPI: 65.69
Rank: 47
1925 - 2013
HPI: 65.57
Rank: 48
1869 - 1941
HPI: 65.53
Rank: 49
Among people born in 1907, Nikolaas Tinbergen ranks 22. Before him are Yang Shangkun, J. Hans D. Jensen, Lin Biao, John Bowlby, Robert A. Heinlein, and Frank Whittle. After him are Hans Selye, Hideki Yukawa, Horst Wessel, Fred Zinnemann, Bhagat Singh, and François Duvalier. Among people deceased in 1988, Nikolaas Tinbergen ranks 11. Before him are Valery Legasov, Ernst Ruska, Chet Baker, Kurt Georg Kiesinger, Robert A. Heinlein, and Isidor Isaac Rabi. After him are Chiang Ching-kuo, Kim Philby, Roy Orbison, Raymond Carver, Juan Pujol García, and Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad.
1907 - 1998
HPI: 67.66
Rank: 16
1907 - 1973
HPI: 67.14
Rank: 17
1907 - 1971
HPI: 66.97
Rank: 18
1907 - 1990
HPI: 66.97
Rank: 19
1907 - 1988
HPI: 66.60
Rank: 20
1907 - 1996
HPI: 66.20
Rank: 21
1907 - 1988
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 22
1907 - 1982
HPI: 65.85
Rank: 23
1907 - 1981
HPI: 65.56
Rank: 24
1907 - 1930
HPI: 65.48
Rank: 25
1907 - 1997
HPI: 65.39
Rank: 26
1907 - 1931
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 27
1907 - 1971
HPI: 65.14
Rank: 28
1936 - 1988
HPI: 69.45
Rank: 5
1906 - 1988
HPI: 68.95
Rank: 6
1929 - 1988
HPI: 68.21
Rank: 7
1904 - 1988
HPI: 67.61
Rank: 8
1907 - 1988
HPI: 66.60
Rank: 9
1898 - 1988
HPI: 66.32
Rank: 10
1907 - 1988
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 11
1910 - 1988
HPI: 65.90
Rank: 12
1912 - 1988
HPI: 65.70
Rank: 13
1936 - 1988
HPI: 64.39
Rank: 14
1938 - 1988
HPI: 63.40
Rank: 15
1912 - 1988
HPI: 63.24
Rank: 16
1927 - 1988
HPI: 63.18
Rank: 17
Among people born in Netherlands, Nikolaas Tinbergen ranks 61 out of 1,427. Before him are Dick Advocaat (1947), Sylvia Kristel (1952), William II, Prince of Orange (1626), Saskia van Uylenburgh (1612), Ruud Gullit (1962), and Rem Koolhaas (1944). After him are Theo van Gogh (1857), Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (1584), Peter Canisius (1521), Gerrit Rietveld (1888), Tobias Asser (1838), and Frits Zernike (1888).
1947 - Present
HPI: 66.50
Rank: 55
1952 - 2012
HPI: 66.49
Rank: 56
1626 - 1650
HPI: 66.48
Rank: 57
1612 - 1642
HPI: 66.23
Rank: 58
1962 - Present
HPI: 66.17
Rank: 59
1944 - Present
HPI: 66.17
Rank: 60
1907 - 1988
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 61
1857 - 1891
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 62
1584 - 1647
HPI: 65.95
Rank: 63
1521 - 1597
HPI: 65.86
Rank: 64
1888 - 1964
HPI: 65.77
Rank: 65
1838 - 1913
HPI: 65.75
Rank: 66
1888 - 1966
HPI: 65.61
Rank: 67
Among biologists born in Netherlands, Nikolaas Tinbergen ranks 2. Before him are Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632). After him are Hugo de Vries (1848), 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), George Clifford III (1685), and Pieter Bleeker (1819).
1632 - 1723
HPI: 79.56
Rank: 1
1907 - 1988
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 2
1848 - 1935
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 3
1668 - 1738
HPI: 63.47
Rank: 4
1637 - 1680
HPI: 62.70
Rank: 5
1851 - 1931
HPI: 61.32
Rank: 6
1727 - 1817
HPI: 60.80
Rank: 7
1778 - 1858
HPI: 60.57
Rank: 8
1730 - 1795
HPI: 55.48
Rank: 9
1734 - 1793
HPI: 52.61
Rank: 10
1685 - 1760
HPI: 49.92
Rank: 11
1819 - 1870
HPI: 49.87
Rank: 12