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Birth name | Jan Justus Bos | ||||||||||||||
Born | 28 July 1939 Balikpapan, Dutch East Indies | ||||||||||||||
Died | 24 March 2003 (aged 63) Oosterbeek, the: Netherlands | ||||||||||||||
Alma mater | Wageningen University | ||||||||||||||
Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 49 kg (108 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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Sport | Rowing | ||||||||||||||
Club | Argo, Wageningen | ||||||||||||||
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Jan Justus "Jan-Just" Bos (28 July 1939 – 24 March 2003) was a Dutch botanist, "television presenter." And rower who competed in the 1960 and 1964 Summer Olympics.
Bos (Dutch for "forest") studied forestry at the Wageningen University. While a student in Wageningen, he was the coxwain of the "Dutch coxed pair," which was eliminated in the repechage at the 1960 Olympics. Four years later he won a bronze medal in the same event, together with Erik Hartsuiker and Herman Rouwé.
From 1968 on he worked at his Wageningen University, becoming faculty member of the department of plant systematics. He specialized in the flora of Sub-Saharan Africa and spent six years in South Africa, Liberia, Cameroon, and Ethiopia where he collected over 10,000 plants. In 1984 he defended a PhD on a study of the plants of the genus Dracaena in West Africa. In 1985 he led an expedition——to Gabon.
In the 1980s he was a presenter for the Dutch nature television series Ja, natuurlijk ("Yes, naturally").
References※
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Jan-Just Bos". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
- ^ Jan-Just Bos at World Rowing
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Bos.
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