William Homan Thorpe 3826983 151909372 2007-08-17T21:38:08Z SmackBot 433328 Defaultsort for people stubs (and gen fixes) '''William Homan Thorpe''' FRS ([[April 1]], [[1902]] – [[April 7]], [[1986]]) was Professor of Animal Ethology at the [[University of Cambridge]], and a significant [[United Kingdom|British]] [[zoologist]], [[ethologist]] and [[ornithologist]]. Together with [[Nikolaas Tinbergen]], [[Patrick Bateson]] and [[Robert Hinde]], Thorpe contributed to the growth and acceptance of behavioural biology in Great Britain. In the 1940s, he pioneered the use of [[sound spectrography]] for the detailed analysis of [[bird song]]. At the time, there was only a single apparatus in the UK. He was elected to the Royal Society in [[1951]] and speaker at the [[Gifford lectures]] from [[1969]] to [[1971]]. He was president of the [[British Ornithologists' Union]] from 1955 to 1960. ==Bibliography== *''Learning and Instinct in Animals'' ([[1956]]) Methuen, London ISBN 0-416-57920-5 *''Biology,psychology,and belief (Arthur Stanley Eddington memorial lectures)'' ([[1960]]) * ''Bird-Song. The biology of vocal communication and expression in birds'', University Press, Cambridge 1961, (Cambridge monographs in experimental biology; Vol. 12) *'' Biology and Nature of Man (Riddell Memorial Lecture)'' ([[1962]]) * ''Duetting and antiphonal song in birds. Its extent and significance'', Brill, Leiden 1972, ISBN 90-04-03432-3 (Behaviour / Supplements; Vol. 18) *''Quakers and Humanists ([[Swarthmore Lecture]]s)'' (1968) *''Animal Nature and Human Nature'' ([[1975]]) * ''Science, Man and Morals. Based upon the Freemantle lectures, delivered in Balliol College, Oxford, Trinity term 1963'', Greenwood, Westport, Conn. [[1976]], ISBN 0-8371-8143-7 *''Purpose in a World of Chance: A Biologist's View'' ([[1978]]) * ''The origins and rise of ethology. The science of the natural behaviour of animals'', Heinemann, London [[1979]], ISBN 0-435-62441-5 ==See also== [[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]] article by Alan Costall, ‘Thorpe, William Homan (1902–1986)’, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/60992] accessed 19 June 2007. {{DEFAULTSORT:Thorpe, William Homan}} [[Category:Ethologists]] [[Category:1902 births]] [[Category:1986 deaths]] [[Category:Fellows of the Royal Society]] {{UK-scientist-stub}} [[de:William Thorpe]] [[fr:William Homan Thorpe]]