Person

Frankel, Otto Herzberg (1900 - 1998)

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Born
4 November 1900
Austria
Died
21 November 1998
Occupation
Geneticist, Science administrator and Plant breeder

Summary

Sir Otto Frankel was Chief, Division of Plant Industry, CSIRO, Canberra 1951-1962, a member of the Executive 1962-1966 and, from 1966, has worked as an honorary research fellow in the Division of Plant Industry. He was among the first to warn of the problems in the loss of plant biodiversity.

Details

Chronology

Award - Honorary Member, The Japan Academy
Award - Fellow, Royal Society of New Zealand
1925
Education - Doctorate of Agriculture, Berlin, Germany
1925 - 1926
Career position - Wheat breeder, Czechoslovakia
1927
Career position - Animal Science Project, Palestine
1928
Career position - Oats Work, Cambridge, United Kingdom
1929 - 1941
Career position - Plant breeder and Geneticist, New Zealand
1942 - 1949
Career position - Director, Wheat Research Institute, New Zealand
1950 - 1951
Career position - Director, Crop Research Division, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Zealand
1951 - 1962
Career position - Chief, Division of Plant Industry, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia
1953 - 1998
Award - Fellow, Royal Society, England
1954 - 1998
Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Science
1962
Award - Farrer Memorial Medal, Farrer Memorial Trust
1962 - 1966
Career position - Executive Member, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia
1966 - c. 1994
Career position - Honorary Research Fellow, Division of Plant Industry, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia
1970s
Career Position - President, International Genetics Federation

Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

  • Lloyd Thomas Evans - Records, MS 213; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details
  • Otto Herzberg Frankel - Records, 1964 - c. 1998, MS 106; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Corporate Records and Archives Strategies

  • Otto Herzberg Frankel - Records, 1957 - 1971, Se 625, 626 and 463; Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Corporate Records and Archives Strategies. Details

National Archives of Australia, National Office

  • Otto Herzberg Frankel - Records, 1920 - 1990; National Archives of Australia, National Office. Details

Private hands (Thomson, A.D.)

  • Otto Herzberg Frankel - Records, 1949 - 1964; Private hands (Thomson, A.D.). Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

Books

  • Frankel,, Otto; Brown, D. H.; and Burdon, Jeremy J., The conservation of plant biodiversity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 299 pp. Details

Book Sections

  • Crute, Ian, 'Sir Otto Herzberg Frankel, 1900-1998' in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). Details

Journal Articles

Resources

Resource Sections

See also

McCarthy, G.J.

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