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Beschreibung
This affectionate account is the first biography of Niko Tinbergen, the Pulitzer Prize-winning naturalist who turned a passion for observing nature into a revolutionary new branch of science that illuminated the study of animal behavior. 55 halftones. Line illustrations.
This affectionate account is the first biography of Niko Tinbergen, the Pulitzer Prize-winning naturalist who turned a passion for observing nature into a revolutionary new branch of science that illuminated the study of animal behavior. 55 halftones. Line illustrations.
Über den Autor
Hans Kruuk was born in Holland in 1937. He studied under Niko Tinbergen in Oxford, then spent seven years in the Serengeti, as co-founder and then Deputy-Director of the Serengeti Research Institute. He is a professor in Zoology at the University of Aberdeen and has written four natural history books, three of them for OUP, as well as over 120 scientific publications.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Preface

  • List of photos in the text

  • 1: Wild birds and science

  • 2: A Dutch upbringing

  • 3: Student years and Greenland

  • 4: Ethologist in the 1930s

  • 5: The Second World War and after

  • 6: Starting again: Oxford in the 1950s

  • 7: Niko's two worlds: Oxford in the 1960s

  • 8: The Nobel Prize, and human behaviour

  • 9: Winding down

  • 10: Niko's legacy

  • Notes

  • Niko Tinbergen's publications

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
Genre: Importe, Technik allg.
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780198515586
ISBN-10: 0198515588
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Kruuk, Hans
Illustrator: Tinbergen, Niko
Hersteller: Oxford University Press (UK)
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Postfach:81 03 40, D-70567 Stuttgart, vertrieb@dbg.de
Maße: 242 x 165 x 40 mm
Von/Mit: Hans Kruuk
Erscheinungsdatum: 18.03.2004
Gewicht: 0,897 kg
Artikel-ID: 120662163

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