doctoral_advisor thesis_year death_date death_place birth_place citizenship thesis_title image_size nationality fields workplaces notable_students birth_date image article_title name alma_mater
s.j. geerts 1965 21 august 1998 enschede , the netherlands enschede , the netherlands dutch an ethological investigation of single-gene differences in mice 180x200px dutch behavioural genetics radboud university nijmegen wim crusio 20 november 1936 j. in enschede.jpg h. f. -lrb- hans -rrb- van abeelen thuis hans van abeelen
 johannes henricus felix van abeelen radboud university nijmegen
hans van abeelen

hans van abeelen -lrb- 20 november 1936 -- 21 august 1998 -rrb- was the first dutch behaviour geneticist .
he obtained his m.sc from the university of groningen and his ph.d. from the catholic university of nijmegen in 1965 , where he stayed for the rest of his career as `` wetenschappelijk hoofdmedewerker '' .
he was a founding member of the behavior genetics association and served on the editorial board of its journal , `` behavior genetics '' , from its creation in 1971 to 1992 .
van abeelen took early retirement in 1991 , but nevertheless became one of the founding members of the international behavioural and neural genetics society .
over the span of his career , he published 64 articles and book chapters and edited one book , `` the genetics of behaviour '' , which was an early overview of european behaviour genetics .
