Nikolaas Tinbergen

Nobel Prize lecture

Ethology and Stress Diseases

Nikolaas Tinbergen held his Nobel Lecture on 12 December 1973, at the Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm. He was presented by Professor Börje Cronholm, Member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine.

Ethology and Stress Diseases

Nikolaas Tinbergen held his Nobel Lecture on 12 December 1973, at the Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm. He was presented by Professor Börje Cronholm, Member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine.

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From Nobel Lectures, Physiology or Medicine 1971-1980, Editor Jan Lindsten, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 1992

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