Luuk Tinbergen (c. 1916-1955) was a Dutchornithologist. 1916 is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar) Events January-February January 1 -The first successful blood transfusion using blood that had been stored and cooled. ... 1955 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ornithology (from the Greek ornitha = chicken and logos = word/science) is the branch of biology concerned with the scientific study of birds. ...
Tinbergen was the youngest of three eminent brothers — both Jan and Nikolaas won Nobel Prizes for economics and physiology or medicine respectively. Jan Tinbergen (The Hague, April 12, 1903 - June 9, 1994), Dutch economist, was awarded the first Nobel Prize in Economics in 1969, which he shared with Ragnar Frisch for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes. ... Nikolaas Tinbergen (April 15, 1907 - December 21, 1988) was a noted ethologist and ornithologist 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. ...
He was appointed in 1949 by Gerard Baerends to the University of Groningen, where he developed important concepts in ethology, particularly the application of quantativeness. Tinbergen committed suicide in 1955 at the age of 39. His son Tijs Tinbergen is a film director (imdb (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0863857/)), and his 1994 film Gebiologeerd is a homage to Luuk [1] (http://nfdb.akris.nl/nfdb/servlet/NfdbSearch?action=show_film&lang=en&id=3454). 1949 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... Front of the main building of the University of Groningen The University of Groningen (Dutch: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen or RUG) is a university in Groningen, Netherlands. ... Ethology is the scientific study of animal behaviour (particularly of social animals such as primates and canids), and is a branch of zoology. ... 1955 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Tinbergen's research on the behavior of gulls is classic, especially the role of various stimuli acting at key points.
To Tinbergen, instincts are not disembodied responses that occur in a vacuum.
Tinbergen and his students developed a variety of ethology sensitive to the concerns of North American workers regarding such issues as the complexity inherent in the development of behavior.
Tinbergen was the youngest of three eminent brothers — both Jan and Nikolaas won Nobel Prizes for economics and physiology or medicine respectively.
Tinbergen committed suicide in 1955 at the age of 39.
His elder son Tijs Tinbergen is a nature film director (imdb), and his 1994 film Gebiologeerd ("mesmerised") is a homage to Luuk [1], and his younger son Joost Tinbergen is also a biologist.