Nikolaas Tinbergen (
1907-
1988) was a noted
ethologist who shared the
1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with
Karl Von Frisch and
Konrad Lorenz for their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns. Born in
Hague, Netherlands[?], he is also noted as the brother of
Jan Tinbergen won the first
Nobel Prize in Economics.