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Physiology or Medicine (216) |
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1973 (12) |
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Vienna (14) |
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Konrad (2) |
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Konrad Lorenz Institute of Ethology (1) |
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Austrian Academy of Sciences (14) |
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Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (25) |
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City of Vienna Prize for science (3) |
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Great Cross with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (23) |
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Kalinga Prize (7) |
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Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts (65) |
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Prix mondial Cino Del Duca (2) |
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| complete name: |
Konrad Lorenz |
| nobel prize: |
medicine |
| award year: |
1973 |
| together with: |
Karl von Frisch |
| together with: |
Niko Tinbergen |
| prize share: |
Prize share: 1/3 |
| rational: |
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1973 was awarded jointly to Karl von Frisch, Konrad Lorenz and Nikolaas Tinbergen "for their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns." |
| biography: |
Biography |
| laureate facts: |
Facts |
| laureate lecture: |
Lecture |
| given name: |
Konrad |
| family name: |
Lorenz |
| occupation: |
zoologist |
| occupation: |
biologist |
| occupation: |
university teacher |
| occupation: |
ethologist |
| field of work: |
philosophy |
| field of work: |
ethology |
| work location: |
University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria |
| notable work: |
On Aggression |
| notable work: |
Behind the Mirror: A Search for a Natural History of Human Knowledge |
| notable work: |
Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins |
| description: |
Konrad Lorenz was an Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist. He shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Karl von Frisch. He is often regarded as one of the founders of modern ethology, developing an approach that began with an earlier generation, including his teacher Oskar Heinroth. Lorenz studied instinctive behavior in animals, especially in greylag geese and jackdaws. Working with geese, he investigated the principle of imprinting, the process by which some nidifugous birds (i.e. birds that leave their nest early) bond instinctively with the first moving object that they see within the first hours of hatching. Although Lorenz did not discover the topic, he became widely known for his descriptions of imprinting as an instinctive bond. In 1936 he met Dutch biologist Nikolaas Tinbergen, and the two collaborated in developing ethology as a separate sub-discipline of biology. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Lorenz as the 65th most cited scholar of the 20th century in the technical psychology journals, introductory psychology textbooks, and survey responses. Lorenz's work was interrupted by the onset of World War II and in 1941 he was recruited into the German army as a medic. In 1944 he was sent to the Eastern Front where he was captured and spent four years as a Soviet prisoner of war. After the war he regretted his membership in the Nazi party. Lorenz wrote numerous books, some of which, such as King Solomon's Ring, On Aggression, and Man Meets Dog, became popular reading. His last work "Here I Am - Where Are You?" is a summary of his life's work and focuses on his famous studies of greylag geese. |
| pronunciation: |
(German: [ˈkɔnʁaːt ˈloːʁɛnts]) |
| image copyright: |
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. |
| image citation: |
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1973. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1973/summary/> |
| date birth: |
1903 |
| date death: |
1989 |
| usual name: |
Konrad Lorenz |
