The opening session talked less of goslings and rooks than of an animal that was one of Tinbergen's favourite toys the three-spined stickleback.
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They almost certainly learned it from Ragnar Frisch, a Norwegian economist, who with Tinbergen shared the first Nobel prize in economics in 1969.
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In the four years between Jan's win in 1969 in economics and his brother Nikolaas' win in 1973 for medicine, a healthy sibling rivalry most likely ensued in the Tinbergen household.