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Jan-Just Bos

1939 - 2003

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jan-Just Bos is the 1,015th most popular biologist (down from 913th in 2019), the 93rd most popular biography from Indonesia (down from 85th in 2019) and the most popular Indonesian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Jan-Just Bos ranks 1,015 out of 1,097. Before him are Charles Sprague Sargent, Charles B. Cory, Nigel Marven, Annie Lorrain Smith, Judah Folkman, and Wim Crusio. After him are Ilkka Hanski, Hugh Huxley, Prideaux John Selby, Akhtar Hameed Khan, David Lack, and John Belchier.

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Among people born in 1939, Jan-Just Bos ranks 550. Before him are Mavis Staples, Paul Nihill, Rhodri Morgan, Marino Perani, Jolán Kleiber-Kontsek, and Barney McKenna. After him are S. David Griggs, Bob Clark, Mickey Kantor, Martin Feldstein, Stanley Anderson, and Jorge Fons. Among people deceased in 2003, Jan-Just Bos ranks 332. Before him are Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Armand Borel, Vera Zorina, Dave DeBusschere, Edward F. Moore, and Peter Hacks. After him are Éva Janikovszky, Robert Detweiler, Robert John Braidwood, Lou Harrison, C. Douglas Dillon, and Sheb Wooley.

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In Indonesia

Among people born in Indonesia, Jan-Just Bos ranks 93 out of 158. Before him are Usmar Ismail (1921), Jeroen Brouwers (1940), Caesar ten Cate (1890), Edu Snethlage (1886), Jan Kok (1889), and Retno Marsudi (1962). After him are Dick Esser (1918), Anicetus Bongsu Antonius Sinaga (1941), Anies Baswedan (1969), Muammar Z.A. (1954), Susi Pudjiastuti (1965), and Sri Mulyani (1962).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Indonesia

Among biologists born in Indonesia, Jan-Just Bos ranks 1. 

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