Konrad Lorenz
Imprinting discovery scientist
Konrad Lorenz was an Austrian zoologist who founded modern ethology—the scientific study of animal behavior.
He shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries about instinctive behavior patterns, particularly imprinting, where young animals form attachments to the first moving object they see.
His work with greylag geese became iconic: like Konrad Lorenz with his goslings.
Rapid early learning attachment
- animal behaviorActions of living creatures
- instinctInnate behavioral tendency
- aggressionHostile or attacking behavior
- fixed action patternInnate, stereotyped behavioral sequence
goslings · critical period · releaser · courtship · territoriality · animal communication · mate selection · social behavior
From the Alpine republic
- ViennaAustrian capital
- zoologistOne who studies animals
- naturalistStudent of nature
- physicianLicensed medical doctor
professor · author · researcher · academic · mentor · lecturer · philosopher · popularizer
Early seventies date
Hitler's fascist political organization
- apologyStatement acknowledging wrongdoing
- renunciationFormal surrender of claim
- eugenicsControlled human reproduction theory
- denazificationEliminating fascist ideology institutionally
imprinting
Rapid early learning attachment
- animal behaviorActions of living creatures
- instinctInnate behavioral tendency
- aggressionHostile or attacking behavior
fixed action pattern · goslings · critical period · releaser · courtship · territoriality · animal communication · mate selection · social behavior
Austrian
From the Alpine republic
- ViennaAustrian capital
- zoologistOne who studies animals
- naturalistStudent of nature
physician · professor · author · researcher · academic · mentor · lecturer · philosopher · popularizer
1973
Early seventies date
Nazi Party
Hitler's fascist political organization
- apologyStatement acknowledging wrongdoing
- renunciationFormal surrender of claim
- eugenicsControlled human reproduction theory
- biologistsbiologist, geneticist, molecular biologist, microbiologist, biochemist
- Biology HistoryDarwin, Mendel, evolution, natural selection, cell theory
- animal scientistszoologist, ethologist, marine biologist, ornithologist, wildlife biologist
- naturalistsCharles Darwin, naturalist, field researcher, botanist, Carl Linnaeus
- imprintingcritical period, ducklings, goslings
- OrnithologistsJohn James Audubon
Konrad LorenzB.F. Skinner
Behaviorist psychologist, conditioning researcher