Obituary: Jan Tinbergen, 1903-94

Obituary – Jan Bureš

Jan Bureš, an exceptionally humane, creative, and gifted experimentalist who died on August 24, 2012 at the age of 86, is rightly viewed as one of the founding fathers of modern neuroscience. Jan was born June 13, 1926 in the Czech Republic, and soon after studying medicine, established with Olga Burešova, his wife and lifelong collaborator, the Laboratory of Neurophysiology of Memory in the In...

Obituary for Jan Valentyn van der Merwe

Professor Jan Valentyn Van der Merwe passed away on Friday, 25 September, at the age of 71. Prof Jan’s illustrious career began after he completed a research fellowship at Duke University in the USA, and returned to South Africa as Head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Pretoria University. In this role, Prof Jan pioneered the establishment of an assisted reproduction unit in S...

Tinbergen on mirror neurons.

Fifty years ago, Niko Tinbergen defined the scope of behavioural biology with his four problems: causation, ontogeny, survival value and evolution. About 20 years ago, there was another highly significant development in behavioural biology-the discovery of mirror neurons (MNs). Here, I use Tinbergen's original four problems (rather than the list that appears in textbooks) to highlight the diffe...

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Tinbergen rules the Taylor Rule

Tinbergen Rules the Taylor Rule by Thomas R. Michl JEL E12, E52