The Most Famous
BIOLOGISTS from Indonesia
This page contains a list of the greatest Indonesian Biologists. The pantheon dataset contains 1,097 Biologists, 1 of which were born in Indonesia. This makes Indonesia the birth place of the 57th most number of Biologists behind Taiwan, and Kazakhstan.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Indonesian Biologists of all time. This list of famous Indonesian Biologists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Jan-Just Bos (1939 - 2003)
With an HPI of 52.58, Jan-Just Bos is the most famous Indonesian Biologist. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.
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 a 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").
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Indonesian biologists born between 1939 and 1939. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Indonesian biologists include Jan-Just Bos. As of April 2024, 1 new Indonesian biologists have been added to Pantheon including Jan-Just Bos.
