Who were the brothers who won Nobel Prizes, one for economics and the other for medicine or physiology?

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Jan Tinbergen shared the Nobel Prize for economics in 1969 with Ragnar Frisch. His brother Nikolaas Tinbergen shared the 1973 physiology/medicine prize with Konrad Lorenz and Karl von Frisch. Apr 27 03, 11:25 AM

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Jan Tinbergen (The Hague, April 12, 1903 – June 9, 1994 The Hague), Dutch economist, was awarded the first Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 1969, which he shared with Ragnar Frisch for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes. Nikolaas "Niko" Tinbergen (April 15, 1907 – December 21, 1988) was a Dutch ethologist and ornithologist who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Karl von Frisch and Konrad Lorenz for their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns in animals. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Tinbergen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolaas_Tinbergen Feb 03 08, 9:44 AM

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