Nikolaas Tinbergen, Ph.D.
Nikolaas Tinbergen, Ph.D.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1973
Co-nobelist Karl von Frisch, Konrad Lorenz
Name: Nikolaas “Niko” Tinbergen
Birth: 15 April 1907, The Hague, The Netherands
Death: 21 December, 1988, Oxford, United Kingdom
Institution: Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Award: “for their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns”
Portion of Cash: 1/3
Education: Biology – Leiden University, Leiden Netherlands
Ph,D, thesis “Über die Orienterlung dis Beinenwolfes” (On the orientation of the bee wolf), 1932
Nobel Prize Cash and Philanthropy
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Medal, Cash and Philanthropy
Nikolaas Tinbergen used his Nobel Prize money to help others conduct research. To help the Hooke Library buy books, he donated £1000. The Hooke Library is the lending library of Oxford University for science subjects. It is named after the 17th century Oxford scientist, Robert Hooke.