NIKOLAAS TINBERGEN
NOBEL LAUREATE IN MEDICINE
Author: Associated Press
Date: Saturday, December 24, 1988
Page: 27
Section: OBITUARY
OXFORD, England -- Nikolaas Tinbergen, a Dutch-born British zoologist who
won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1973, has died of an apparent stroke, his
widow said yesterday. He was 81.
Elizabeth A. Rutten said in a telephone interview that her husband of 56
years had "quite reasonably recovered" from a first stroke in 1983. He died
Wednesday after apparently suffering another stroke at his Oxford home.
Born in the Hague in 1907, Mr. Tinbergen studied at universities in
Leiden, Netherlands, and Vienna. He also studied at Yale University.
He gained prominence in the late 1930s as one of the founders of ethology,
the branch of biology that studies animal behavior.
Two years after being appointed professor of experimental zoology at
Leiden University in 1947, he became an ethology lecturer at Oxford
University, where he wrote "The Study of Instinct," considered the first
handbook on ethology ever published. He was a professor of animal behavior at
Oxford from 1966 to 1974.
Mr. Tinbergen, who became a British citizen in 1955, was a writer and a
nature films producer.
He shared the 1973 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with German
zoologist Konrad Lorenz and Austrian zoologist Karl von Frisch for their
''discoveries in the field of the organization and occurrence of individual
and social behavioral patterns" in the animal world.
Besides his wife, Mr. Tinbergen leaves two sons and three daughters.
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