William Homan Thorpe
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'''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.
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