# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:39:59.689Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Konrad Zacharias Lorenz was born 7 November 1903 in Austria and trained as a zoologist with a focus on birds. Working with greylag geese and jackdaws, he studied imprinting — the process by which certain hatchlings bond instinctively to the first moving thing they see — and though he didn't discover it, his descriptions made it widely known. In 1936 he met Nikolaas Tinbergen, and together they built ethology into its own branch of biology. World War II pulled him into the German Army as a medic; in 1944 he was captured on the Eastern Front and spent four years as a prisoner in Soviet Armenia, later regretting his Nazi Party membership. He shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Tinbergen and Karl von Frisch, wrote popular books like King Solomon's Ring and On Aggression, and closed his career with Here I Am – Where Are You?, a summation built around those geese. He died 27 February 1989.