Born: 15-Apr-1907
Birthplace: The Hague, Netherlands
Died: 21-Dec-1988
Location of death: Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Zoologist

Nationality: Netherlands
Executive summary: Grand Master of Ethology

Military service: Nazi Detention (1942-45)

Father: Dirk C. Tinbergen
Mother: Jeannette van Eek
Brother: Jan Tinbergen (economist)
Wife: Elisabeth Rutten

    University: PhD, University of Leiden (1932)
    Professor: University of Leiden (1932-49)
    Professor: Zoology, Oxford University (1949-74)

    Nobel Prize for Medicine 1973 (with Karl von Frisch and Konrad Lorenz)
    Naturalized UK Citizen 1955

Author of books:
The Study of Instinct (1951)
The Herring Gull's World (1953)
Social Behavior in Animals (1953)
Animal Behavior (1965)
The Animal in Its World: Explorations of an Ethologist, 1932-1972 (1972-73, 2 vols.)

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