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Tinbergen

American  
[tin-bur-guhn, tin-ber-khuhn, -khuh] / ˈtɪn bɜr gən, ˈtɪnˌbɛr xən, -xə /

noun

  1. Jan 1903–94, Dutch economist: Nobel Prize 1969.

  2. his brother Nikolaas Niko, 1907–88, British ethologist, born in the Netherlands: Nobel Prize in medicine 1973.


Tinbergen British  
/ ˈtɪnˌbɜːɡən /

noun

  1. Jan (jæn). 1903–94, Dutch economist, noted for his work on econometrics. He shared (1969) the first Nobel prize for economics with Ragnar Frisch

  2. his brother, Nikolaas (ˈnɪkələs). 1907–88, British zoologist, born in the Netherlands; studied animal behaviour, esp instincts, and was one of the founders of ethology; Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1973

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But it’s still the biggest gong in the economics world, having been won by many of the discipline’s leading lights - from Jan Tinbergen and James Tobin to Elinor Ostrom and Angus Deaton.

From The Guardian

Others, like Niko Tinbergen, another very famous early ethologist, do experiments out in the place where the animals live.

From Literature

His mentor was Nobel Laureate Niko Tinbergen, whose studies of herring gulls in the Netherlands helped lay the foundation for the field of ethology, or animal behavior.

From Seattle Times

And ethology has been recognized as a branch of biology since the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to Nikolaas Tinbergen, Konrad Lorenz and Karl von Frisch for their evolutionary analyses of behaviour.

From Nature

The prize has recognised some of the biggest names and brightest ideas, since Ragnar Frisch and Jan Tinbergen shared the first award in 1969.

From The Guardian