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Jan-Just Bos

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Jan-Just Bos
Bos (1964)
Personal information
Birth nameJan Justus Bos
Born28 July 1939
Balikpapan, Dutch East Indies
Died24 March 2003 (aged 63)
Oosterbeek, the Netherlands
Alma materWageningen University
Height1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight49 kg (108 lb)
Sport
SportRowing
ClubArgo, Wageningen
Medal record
Men's rowing
Representing the  Netherlands
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 1964 Tokyo Coxed pair

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.[1][2]

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").

References

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Jan-Just Bos at World Rowing
  3. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Bos.