Konrad Lorenz
I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we.
Summary
Konrad Zacharias Lorenz (1903 - 1989) was an Austrian zoologist, animal psychologist, and ornithologist, winning the Nobel prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1973.
He is often regarded as one of the founders of modern Ethology, developing an approach that began with an earlier generation. He studied instinctive behavior in animals, and rediscovered the principle of Imprinting (originally described by Douglas Spalding in the 19th century) in the behavior of Nidifugous birds.
He was influential in the development of the Theory of Instinct (see Psychological Aspects of Biodanza).
Ideas
See Also
Burrhus Frederic Skinner: American psychologist who invented the Operant Conditioning Chamber, innovated his own philosophy of science called Radical Behaviorism, and founded his own school of experimental research psychology - the experimental analysis of behavior.
Irenaeus Eibl-Eibesfeldt: founder of the field of Human Ethology.
Rene Spitz: psychoanalyst, one of the first researchers who used child observation, pointing out the effects of Maternal and Emotional Deprivation.
Links
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Lorenz
Psychology History: http://www.muskingum.edu/~psych/psycweb/history/lorenz.htm
Biography: http://nobelprize.org/medicine/laureates/1973/lorenz-autobio.html
Quotes: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/k/konrad_lorenz.html
Marga Vicedo, The Father of Ethology and the Foster Mother of Ducks - Konrad Lorenz as Expert on
Motherhood
, The History of Science Society, 2009: http://individual.utoronto.ca/vicedo/vicedoca/Publications_files/Vicedo_ISIS.pdf
Ethology: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethology