The person who I admire

Nikolaas Tinbergen was born in The Hague, Netherlands, on 15th April 1907, as the third of five children to a schoolmaster and his wife. At school he was by no means notable for scholarship preferring to indulge in appreciating nature through diverse rambles by beach and by lakeside.
As a boy he took a great interest in two small freshwater aquaria located in the backyard of the family home and was also made responsible, by one of his teachers at High School, for three saltwater aquaria. Alongside these practical involvements he also appreciatively read the works of two famous Dutch naturalists - E. Heimans and Jac P. Thijsse.
He was initially rather daunted by any prospect of studying academic biology at university level but, he resolved to attempt studies in Biology at Leiden University. In 1932 he was being awarded a Ph.D.

In 1936 Konrad Lorenz was invited to Leiden for a small symposium on "Instinct", and it was at this symposium that Niko Tinbergen first met Konrad Lorenz. The two men became friends such that the Tinbergens, who by now had a small son, were invited to an extended stay at the Lorenz home near Vienna. During this stay the two scientists got on very well and Tinbergen felt that his own more cautious critical sense balanced Konrad Lorenz extraordinary vision and enthusiasm. These months of harmonious and fruitful co-operation were followed by a lifelong friendship.

Tinbergen was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1962 and as a Foreign Member of the Netherlands Academy of Sciences in 1964. In 1973 he shared the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine with two other zoologists, the German Karl von Frisch and his old friend Konrad Lorenz. Together, they were cited for their discoveries concerning the ways in which individual and social behavior patterns develop in groupings of animals.

Among his many publications important to the development of ethology are:
-The Study of Instinct (1951)
-The Herring Gull's World (1953)
-Curious Naturalists (1958)
-The Animal in its World Vol. 1. (1972)
-The Animal in its World Vol. 2. (1973)
-Early Childhood Autism - an Ethological Approach (together with E. A. Tinbergen in 1972)
Nikolaas Tinbergen died in 1988.

I admire him because I like his studies exposed in the Animal Behavior Class.