The announcement right now of this yr’s winner of the Nobel prize for physiology or medication (properly performed Svante Paabo!) has dropped at thoughts Nikolaas Tinbergen, the Dutch scientist who received the identical prize virtually 50 years in the past.  Tinbergen is revered within the Alexander neighborhood for the very eloquent and public recognition he gave to our work: so impressed was he with “the achievements of F M Alexander and his pupils” that he devoted virtually ten minutes of his 1973 Nobel lecture to the Alexander Approach. He describes Alexander as “a really exceptional man” and his “discoveries regarding the group and elicitation of particular person and social behavioural patterns” as “one of many true epics of medical analysis observe”. You may watch a recording of Tinbergen’s description of the Alexander Approach right here – extremely really useful!