Austrian ethologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1973 with Nikolaas
Tinbergen and Karl von
Frisch for their work on animal behaviour patterns. He studied the relationship between instinct and behaviour, particularly in birds, and described the phenomenon of
imprinting in 1935. His books include
King Solomon's Ring (1952) on animal behaviour, and
On Aggression (1966) on human behaviour.
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