Group portrait of animal behaviourists
Date
1969
Sitter
Elisabeth (Lies) Amélie Tinbergen (1912 - 1990) , née Rutten, Chemist
Lary Shaffer (1947, American) , Zoologist
Nikolaas Tinbergen (1907 - 1988, Dutch) , Ethologist
Lary Shaffer (1947, American) , Zoologist
Nikolaas Tinbergen (1907 - 1988, Dutch) , Ethologist
Creator
Unknown, Photographer
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Material
Dimensions
width (reversal film (colour slide)): 35mm
Subject
Description
Three-quarter length group portrait of animal behaviourists standing on the shore at Walney Island, Cumbria, looking out to sea. Including from left to right, Niko Tinbergen, his wife Elizabeth Amélie Tinbergen and Lary Shaffer smoking a pipe.
One of a series of images taken or collected by Lary Shaffer at the Oxford Animal Behaviour Research Group’s Walney Island Field Camp.
Nikolaas Tinbergen, (1907–1988), Dutch authority on animal behaviour and Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine (1973, with Karl von Frisch and Konrad Lorenz). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1962.
Elisabeth (Lies) Amélie Tinbergen, née Rutten, (1912-1990), chemist.
Lary Shaffer (b.1947) American animal behaviourist and photographer, studied under Niko Tinbergen for his doctorate in zoology and acted as a natural history cameraman for BBC and other projects, 1968-1976
One of a series of images taken or collected by Lary Shaffer at the Oxford Animal Behaviour Research Group’s Walney Island Field Camp.
Nikolaas Tinbergen, (1907–1988), Dutch authority on animal behaviour and Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine (1973, with Karl von Frisch and Konrad Lorenz). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1962.
Elisabeth (Lies) Amélie Tinbergen, née Rutten, (1912-1990), chemist.
Lary Shaffer (b.1947) American animal behaviourist and photographer, studied under Niko Tinbergen for his doctorate in zoology and acted as a natural history cameraman for BBC and other projects, 1968-1976
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