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Konrad Lorenz

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Konrad Lorenz

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Also known as Konrad Z. Lorenz, Konrad Zacharias Lorenz

Austrian zoologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973 (1903–1989)

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Konrad Lorenz (1903–1989) was an Austrian ethologist, zoologist, university teacher, and writer. Born in Vienna, he was educated at Columbia University and the University of Vienna. His academic career included positions at the University of Vienna, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, and the University of Königsberg. He was a member of the Royal Society, the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Lorenz was also a member of the Nazi Party and participated in World War II.

His notable works include *On Aggression* and *Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins*. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca, the Kalinga Prize, and the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art. Lorenz died in Vienna from kidney failure and is buried in Sankt Andrä-Wördern.

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Person · Open Library

Born
1903
Died
1989
Works
164

Top works

  • So kamder mensch auf den Hund
  • The evolution of behaviour
  • On agression
  • Lads before the wind
  • Ish ish ṿe-khalbo

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Germany
Active from
1903
Active to
1989

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
38
Total plays
150

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models

    · 2022 · cited 15,159x

  2. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    · 2018 · cited 10,995x

  3. Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow

    · 1963 · cited 10,343x

  4. IntCal13 and Marine13 Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curves 0–50,000 Years cal BP

    · 2013 · cited 9,542x

  5. The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans

    · 2020 · cited 9,173x

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Quotes

  • “It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.”
  • “All too willingly man sees himself as the centre of the universe, as something not belonging to the rest of nature but standing apart as a different and higher being. Many people cling to this error and remain deaf to the wisest command ever given by a sage, the famous "Know thyself" inscribed in the temple of Delphi.”
  • “I now come to the third great obstacle to human self-knowledge, to the belief — deeply rooted in our western culture — that what can be explained in terms of natural science has no values. This belief springs from an exaggeration of Kant's values-philosophy, the consequence of the idealistic dichotomy of the world into the external world of things and the internal laws of human reason.”
  • “Nothing can better express the feelings of the scientist towards the great unity of the laws of nature than in Immanuel Kant's words: "Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing awe: the stars above me and the moral law within me."… Would he, who did not yet know of the evolution of the world of organisms, be shocked that we consider the moral law within us not as something given, a priori, but as something which has arisen by natural evolution, just like the laws of the heavens?”
  • “All the advantages that man has gained from his ever-deepening understanding of the natural world that surrounds him, his technological, chemical and medical progress, all of which should seem to alleviate human suffering... tends instead to favor humanity's destruction.”

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1973

    “for their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns”

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Encyclopedic overview

Konrad Zacharias Lorenz ( Austrian German: [ˈkɔnraːd tsaxaˈriːas ˈloːrɛnts] ; 7 November 1903 – 27 February 1989) 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, the study of animal behavior. He developed 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 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 the 65th most cited scholar of the 20th century in the technical psychology journals, introductory psychology textbooks, and survey responses.

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