Luuk Tinbergen

Luuk Tinbergen (c. 1916-1955) was a Dutch ornithologist.

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1916 - 1955 - Dutch - Ornithologist

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Tinbergen was the youngest of three eminent brothers — both Jan and Nikolaas won Nobel Prizes for economics and physiology or medicine respectively.

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Jan - Nikolaas

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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), and his 1994 film Gebiologeerd is a homage to Luuk http://nfdb.akris.nl/nfdb/servlet/NfdbSearch?action=show_film&lang=en&id=3454.

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1949 - Gerard Baerends - University of Groningen - Ethology - 1955 - Tijs Tinbergen

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