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Nikolaas Tinbergen

Nikolaas Tinbergen (1907-1988) was a noted ethologist 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. Born in Hague, Netherlands[?], he is also noted as the brother of Jan Tinbergen won the first Nobel Prize in Economics.

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