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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human McCarthy, G.J. updated 2026-03-04 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000027b.htm person Baas Becking Laurens Gerhard Marinus AACR2 4 January 1895 6 January 1963 Place of Birth Deventer, Netherlands Place of Death Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia Botanist Microbiologist Laurens Baas-Becking was Professor of Botany, Leiden University, Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Buitenzorg, Java and then a member of the Botany Department, University of Sydney 1951-1952. He also worked for the Bureau of Mineral Resources and the CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation). c. 1915 c. 1915 Education - Bachelor of Arts (AB) completed in Utrecht, Holland c. 1918 c. 1918 Education - Master of Arts (MA), Utrecht, Holland 1921 1921 Education - Doctor of Science (DSc), Utrecht, Holland 1921 1921 Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Stanford University, USA 1921 1931 Career position - Research Assistant then Assistant Professor, then Herrzstein Professor of General Physiology at Stanford University, USA 1931 1939 Career position - Professor of General Botany at Leiden, Holland 1939 1940 Career position - Western Director of Science and Director of the Royal Botanic Garden in Buitenzorg, Java c. 1943 c. 1943 Life event - Leader of the Dutch underground movement during World War II 1945 1949 Career position - Head of the Field Branch of the Relief Prisoners of War and Civil Internees in the South-East Asia Command 1945 1949 Career position - Western Director of Science and Director of the Royal Botanic Garden in Buitenzorg, Java 1949 1950 Career position - Director of Research, South Pacific Commission 1951 1952 Career position - Department of Botany, University of Sydney c. 1953 c. 1957 Career position - Division of Fisheries at CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) in Cronulla, New South Wales c. 1958 c. 1959 Career position - Bureau of Mineral Resources 1960 1962 Career position - Division of Plant Industry at CSIRO CSIR/O Division of Plant Industry, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (1929 - c. 2014)

1960 - 1962

 CSIR/O Division of Fisheries, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (1940 - 1956)

Employeed at Cronulla, New South Wales 1953 - 1957

 The University of Sydney (1850 - ) 1951 1952

Member of the Department of Botany, University of Sydney 1951 - 1952

 Baas-Becking, L G M (18950104-19630106)

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 'Baas Becking, Laurens Gerhard Marinus', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Baas Becking, Laurens Gerhard Marinus Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: Dr L. G. M. Baas-Becking Went, F. W. Dr L. G. M. Baas-Becking 1963 Nature 198 4876 134 Laurens Gerhard Marinus Baas Becking - Records Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science Laurens Gerhard Marinus Baas Becking - Records MS 043 1950 - 1965 Biographical material; miscellaneous correspondence; laboratory daybooks and field notebooks 1954-59; scientific working files n.d.; correspondence with colleagues n.d.; correspondence as a member of the Executive Council of the South Pacific Commission late 1940s; personal memoranda; drafts of scientific papers and chapters of an unpublished book on water; lecture notes and addresses 1927-early 1960s and about 200 photographs n.d. [2.56 m, MS 43]. 2.48 m, 31 boxes