Nikolaas Tinbergen (1907–1988) was a Dutch-British ethologist and ornithologist, who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology with Konrad Lorenz and Karl von Frisch for their discoveries in animal behavior. His 'four questions' framework remains foundational in ethology.
Developed the four questions framework for analyzing animal behavior (causation, development, function, evolution); Nobel Prize winner.
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