BIOLOGIST

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jan-Just Bos has received more than 6,896 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Jan-Just Bos is the 913th most popular biologist, the 85th most popular biography from Indonesia and the most popular Indonesian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Jan-Just Bos ranks 913 out of 1,097Before him are Colin Munro MacLeod, Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, Ann Bishop, Ludwig Carl Christian Koch, G. Ledyard Stebbins, and Nikolai Turczaninow. After him are Wilhelm Philippe Schimper, Mark Catesby, Jon E. Ahlquist, Edward Newton, George Engelmann, and William Sherard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Jan-Just Bos ranks 481Before him are Jan Mrvík, Ted Kaufman, Erik Hansen, Gerry Goffin, R. C. Sproul, and Al Unser. After him are Alan Ayckbourn, Chris Craft, Elizabeth Ashley, Jalal Dabagh, Koldo Aguirre, and Rudolf Bayer. Among people deceased in 2003, Jan-Just Bos ranks 300Before him are Halima Nosirova, Donald Regan, Robert Atkins, Anne Gwynne, German Apukhtin, and Conrad Hall. After him are Curt Hennig, Valentin Gavrilov, Sven Fahlman, Carol Shields, Bruno Boni, and Peter Hacks.

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In Indonesia

Among people born in Indonesia, Jan-Just Bos ranks 85 out of 158Before him are Agnez Mo (1986), Ignatius Suharyo Hardjoatmodjo (1950), Taco (1955), Sapardi Djoko Damono (1940), Sri Mulyani (1962), and Caesar ten Cate (1890). After him are Basuki Tjahaja Purnama (1966), Retno Marsudi (1962), Erick Thohir (1970), Christine Hakim (1956), Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana (1908), and Usmar Ismail (1921).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Indonesia

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