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.

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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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Nobel laureate Niko Tinbergen argued that understanding behavior requires asking four core questions: What mechanisms produce it?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

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

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

From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall

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