Robert Aubrey Hinde

Robert Aubrey Hinde (26 October 1923 – 23 December 2016) was a British zoologist, ethologist and psychologist. He served as the emeritus Royal Society research professor of zoology at the University of Cambridge. Hinde is best known for his ethological contributions to the fields of animal behaviour and developmental psychology. One such paper, in which he carefully recorded species of tits opening milk jugs left outside, remains a seminal work in social learning.

Academic career

Cambridge and Madingley Field Station After receiving his D.Phil., Hinde accepted a position from W.H. Thorpe that involved being the curator of a field station location in the village of Madingley. but was initially her "sternest critic until he came to Gombe". Hinde would visit the site at Gombe several times and would be integral to the introduction of his quantitative recording methods at the site. 1990 – Croonian Lecturer of the Royal Society 1996 – Royal Medal, Royal Society 2002 – Honorary Fellow of the British Academy

Awards Primatology 1980 – Osman Hill Medal, Primate Society of Great Britain

Psychology 1980 – Wilhelm Wundt Medal, Leipzig

Ethology 1981 – Honorary Fellow of the British Psychological Society 1991 – Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award, Society for Research in Child Development 1993 – G. Stanley Hall Medal, American Psychological Association 2003 – Bowlby–Ainsworth Award for Contributions to Attachment Theory and Research 2012 – Honorary Member of the Society for Emotion and Attachment Studies

Social psychology 1992 – Distinguished Career Award, International Society for the Study of Interpersonal Relationships

Psychiatry 1980 – Leonard Cammer Award, New York Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University 1987 – Albert Einstein Award for Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York 1988 – Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatry

Anthropology 1984 – Rivers Award in Social Anthropology, Cambridge University 1990 – Huxley Medal, Royal Anthropological Institute

Zoology 1991 – Frink Medal for British Zoologists, Zoological Society of London

Death Hinde died on 23 December 2016, at the age of 93. He was survived by his second wife, Joan Stevenson-Hinde, his six children, eighteen grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren.