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A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Lorenz as the 65th most cited scholar of the 20th century in the technical psychology journals, introductory psychology textbooks, and survey responses. In 1936 he met Dutch biologist Nikolaas Tinbergen, and the two collaborated in developing ethology as a separate sub-discipline of biology. Although Lorenz did not discover the topic, he became widely known for his descriptions of imprinting as an instinctive emotional bond. birds that leave their nest early) bond with the first moving object that they see within the first hours of hatching. Working with geese, he investigated the principle of imprinting, the process by which some nidifugous birds (i.e. Lorenz studied instinctive behavior in animals, especially in greylag geese and jackdaws.

He is often regarded as one of the founders of modern ethology, developing an approach that began with an earlier generation, including his teacher Oskar Heinroth. He shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Karl von Frisch. Konrad Zacharias Lorenz ( German pronunciation: 7 November 1903 – 27 February 1989) was an Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1973).A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Lorenz the 65th most cited scholar of the 20th century in the technical psychology journals, introductory psychology textbooks, and survey responses. In 1936 he met Tinbergen, and the two collaborated in developing ethology as a separate sub-discipline of biology. Although Lorenz did not discover the topic, he became widely known for his descriptions of imprinting as an instinctive bond. Working with geese, he investigated the principle of imprinting, the process by which some nidifugous birds bond instinctively with the first moving object that they see within the first hours of hatching. He developed an approach that began with an earlier generation, including his teacher Oskar Heinroth. He is often regarded as one of the founders of modern ethology, the study of animal behavior. Konrad Zacharias Lorenz was an Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist.