The Tinbergen Lecture is an academic prize lecture awarded by the

Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB) is a British organization founded in 1936 to promote ethology, and the study of animal behaviour. ASAB holds conferences, offers grants, and publishes a peer-reviewed journal, '' Animal Beha ...

(ASAB).

Lecturers

*1974

W.H. Thorpe William Homan Thorpe FRS (1 April 1902 – 7 April 1986) was Professor of Animal Ethology at the University of Cambridge, and a significant British zoologist, ethologist and ornithologist.Alan Costall, ‘Thorpe, William Homan (1902–1986)� ...

*1975

G.P. Baerends Gerardus Pieter Baerends (30 March 1916, The Hague – 1 September 1999, Groningen) was a Dutch biologist and one of the most important representatives of the so-called classical ethology in the tradition of Nikolaas Tinbergen and Konrad Lorenz. Ba ...

*1976 J. Maynard Smith *1977

F. Huber F is the sixth letter of the Latin alphabet. F may also refer to: Science and technology Mathematics * F or f, the number 15 in hexadecimal and higher positional systems * ''p'F'q'', the hypergeometric function * F-distribution, a cont ...

*1978

R.A. Hinde Robert Aubrey Hinde (26 October 1923 – 23 December 2016) was a British zoologist, ethologist and psychologist.Bateson, P., Stevenson-Hinde, J., & Clutton-Brock, T. (2018). Robert Aubrey Hinde CBE. 26 October 1923—23 December 2016. 65, ...

*1979 J. Bowlby *1980

W.D. Hamilton William Donald Hamilton (1 August 1936 – 7 March 2000) was a British evolutionary biologist, recognised as one of the most significant evolutionary theorists of the 20th century. Hamilton became known for his theoretical work expounding ...

*1981 S.J. Gould *1982

H. Kummer H is the eighth letter of the Latin alphabet. H may also refer to: Musical symbols * H number, Harry Halbreich reference mechanism for music by Honegger and Martinů * H, B (musical note) * H, B major People * H. (noble) (died after 1279 ...

*1983

Jörg-Peter Ewert Jörg-Peter Ewert (born 1938 in the Free City of Danzig) is a German neurophysiologist and researcher in the field of Neuroethology. From 1973 to 2006, he served as a university professor (Chair of Zoology/Physiology) in the Faculty of Natural ...

*1984

Frank A. Beach Frank Ambrose Beach, Jr. (April 13, 1911 – June 15, 1988) was an American ethologist, best known as co-author of the 1951 book ''Patterns of Sexual Behavior.'' He is often regarded as the founder of behavioral endocrinology, as his publication ...

*1985

Peter Marler Peter Robert Marler ForMemRS (February 24, 1928 – July 5, 2014) was a British-born American ethologist and zoosemiotician known for his research on animal sign communication and the science of bird song. A 1964 Guggenheim Fellow, he was eme ...

*1986

Jürgen Aschoff Jürgen Walther Ludwig Aschoff (January 25, 1913 – October 12, 1998) was a German physician, biologist and behavioral physiologist. Together with Erwin Bünning and Colin Pittendrigh, he is considered to be a co-founder of the field of chronobio ...

*1987

Aubrey Manning Aubrey William George Manning, OBE, FRSE, FRSB, (24 April 1930 – 20 October 2018)Stephen T. Emlen Stephen or Steven is a common English given name, first name. It is particularly significant to Christianity, Christians, as it belonged to Saint Stephen ( grc-gre, Στέφανος ), an early disciple and deacon who, according to the Book of Ac ...

*1989

P.P.G. Bateson Sir Paul Patrick Gordon Bateson, (31 March 1938 – 1 August 2017) was an English biologist with interests in ethology and phenotypic plasticity. Bateson was a professor at the University of Cambridge and served as president of the Zoologic ...

*1990

J.D. Delius JD or jd may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''JD'' (film), a 2016 Bollywood film * J.D. (''Scrubs''), nickname of Dr. John Dorian, fictional protagonist of the comedy-drama ''Scrubs'' * JD Fenix, a character from the ''Gears of War'' vid ...

*1991 John R. Krebs *1992 E. Curio *1993

Linda Partridge Professor Dame Linda Partridge (born 18 March 1950) is a British geneticist, who studies the biology and genetics of ageing ( biogerontology) and age-related diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. Partridge is currently ...

*1994

Fernando Nottebohm Fernando Nottebohm (born 1940 in Buenos Aires) is a neuroscientist and the Dorothea L. Leonhardt Professor at Rockefeller University, as well as being head of the Laboratory of Animal Behavior and director of the Field Research Center for Ecology a ...

*1995 G.A. Parker *1996

Serge Daan Serge Daan (11 June 1940 – 9 February 2018) was a Dutch scientist, known for his significant contributions to the field of Chronobiology. Early life and education Serge Daan (Mook, 1940) was born in a wind mill, grew up in the Dutch countrysid ...

*1997 N.B. Davies *1998

Michael Land Michael Z. Land (born 1961) is an American video game composer and musician best known for his scores for various games produced by LucasArts. Biography Early life and career Michael Land was born in the North Shore area north of Boston, Massa ...

*1999

Bert Hölldobler Berthold Karl Hölldobler (born 25 June 1936) is a German sociobiologist and evolutionary biologist who studies evolution and social organization in ants. He is the author of several books, including '' The Ants'', for which he and his co-author ...

*2000

Richard Dawkins Richard Dawkins (born 26 March 1941) is a British evolutionary biologist and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford and was Professor for Public Understanding of Science in the University of Oxford from 1995 to 2008. An at ...

*2001

Felicity Huntingford Felicity Anne Huntingford FRSE (born 17 June 1948) is an aquatic ecologist known for her work in fish behaviour. Career Huntingford's research interests include the aggression in sticklebacks and the welfare of farmed fish. She is the author ...

*2002

Marian Dawkins Marian Stamp Dawkins One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: (born Marian Ellina Stamp; 13 February 1945) is a British biologist and professor of ethology at the University of Oxford. H ...

*2003

Tim Clutton-Brock Timothy Hugh Clutton-Brock (born 13 August 1946) is a British zoologist known for his comparative studies of the behavioural ecology of mammals, particularly red deer and meerkats.Tim Birkhead Timothy Robert Birkhead One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: (born 1950) is a British ornithologist. He has been Professor of Behaviour and Evolution at the University of Sheffield ...

*2005

P.K. McGregor PK or pk may refer to: Arts and entertainment Gaming * Probability of kill (Pk), in computer games, simulations, models, and operations research * ''Disney's PK: Out of the Shadows'', a 2002 video game * Player killing, player versus player confl ...

*2006

Pat Monaghan Patricia Monaghan is Regius Professor of Zoology in the Institute of biodiversity, animal health & comparative medicine at the University of Glasgow. Biography Monaghan was educated at Durham University where her PhD investigated the uti ...

*2007

M. Kirkpatrick ( ; ; plural, pl. ; ; 1512, from Middle French , literally "my lord") is an honorific title that was used to refer to or address the eldest living brother of the king in the Ancien Régime in France, French royal court. It has now become the ...

*2008 Peter Slater *2009 *2010

Laurent Keller Laurent Keller (born 28 February 1961) is a Swiss evolutionary biologist, myrmecologist and author. He was a professor at the University of Lausanne from 1996 to 2023. Life, studies and career Born and raised in the French-speaking part of Swi ...

*2011 Cancelled *2012

A Cockburn A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes'' ...

*2013

Marlene Zuk Marlene Zuk (born May 20, 1956) is an American evolutionary biologist and behavioral ecologist. She worked as professor of biology at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) until she transferred to the University of Minnesota in 2012. ...

*2014

Innes Cuthill Innes C. Cuthill (born 1960) is a professor of behavioural ecology at the University of Bristol. His main research interest is in camouflage, in particular how it evolves in response to the colour vision of other animals such as predators. Life In ...

*2015

Nina Wedell Nina Wedell is a professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. She was appointed as the Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow in 2019. She will investigate the evolutionary dynamics of sexual conflict ...

*2016 Alex Kacelnik *2017

Christine Nicol Christine Nicol is an author, academic and a researcher. She is a Professor of Animal Welfare at the Royal Veterinary College and has honorary appointments at the University of Oxford and the University of Lincoln. She is the Field Chief Editor of ...

*2018

Bart Kempenaers Bart is a masculine given name, usually a diminutive of Bartholomew (name), Bartholomew, sometimes of Barton, Bartolomeo, etc. Bart is a Dutch language, Dutch and Ashkenazi Jewish surnames, Ashkenazi Jewish surname, and derives from the name ' ...

*2019

Rebecca Kilner Rebecca M. Kilner FRES is a British evolutionary biologist, and a professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Cambridge. Education and career Kilner studied a BA in Zoology at the University of Oxford in 1992, and received a Ph.D. ...

*2020

Lars Chittka Lars Chittka, FLS, FRES, FSB (born April 1963) is a German zoologist, ethologist and ecologist distinguished for his work on the evolution of sensory systems and cognition, using insect-flower interactions as a model. Life and career Born ...

References

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