Tinbergen
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Jan 1903–94, Dutch economist: Nobel Prize 1969.
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his brother Nikolaas Niko, 1907–88, British ethologist, born in the Netherlands: Nobel Prize in medicine 1973.
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Jan (jæn). 1903–94, Dutch economist, noted for his work on econometrics. He shared (1969) the first Nobel prize for economics with Ragnar Frisch
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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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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 • Oct. 20, 2019
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 • Feb. 19, 2019
But it’s still the biggest prize in Economics, awarded to illustrious names such as John Hicks, Jan Tinbergen, John Nash, and Joseph Stiglitz.
From The Guardian • Oct. 10, 2016
Convergence theory officially debuted in 1961 with a short but influential article by Jan Tinbergen.
From Salon • May 27, 2015
Tinbergen is best known for his work with different kinds of sea gulls.
From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall
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