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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human Gavan McCarthy updated 2026-01-15 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000422b.htm person Frankel Otto Herzberg Kt FAA FRS AACR2 4 November 1900 21 November 1998 Place of Birth Austria Geneticist Plant breeder Science administrator 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. [4 November 1900] [21 November 1998] Award - Honorary Member, The Japan Academy [4 November 1900] [21 November 1998] Award - Fellow, Royal Society of New Zealand 1925 1925 Education - Doctorate of Agriculture, Berlin, Germany 1925 1926 Career position - Wheat breeder, Czechoslovakia 1927 1927 Career position - Animal Science Project, Palestine 1928 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, The Royal Society, London (FRS) 1954 1998 Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (FAA) 1962 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 1970s Career Position - President, International Genetics Federation Australian Academy of Science (1954 - )

Fellow 1954 - 1998

 Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Commonwealth of Australia (1949 - )

Member of Executive 1962 - 1966

 CSIR/O Division of Plant Industry, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (1929 - c. 2014)

Chief 1951 - 1962; Honorary Research Fellow 1966 - 1994

 Farrer Memorial Medal (1936 - )

Awarded the Medal 1962

 Advisory Council - CSIRO, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (1950 - 1986)

Member 1962-1965

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 Frankel, Otto (1900-1998)

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 'Frankel, Otto Herzberg', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Frankel, Otto Herzberg Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book Section: Sir Otto Herzberg Frankel, 1900-1998 Crute, Ian Sir Otto Herzberg Frankel, 1900-1998 Oxford Oxford University Press 2004 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Resource Section: Frankel, Otto Herzberg - Ms 106 Frankel, Otto Herzberg - Ms 106 Australian Academy of Science 1994 Listing of Adolph Basser Library holdings Resource: The Academy's Fellows [including profiles and other relevant links] Australian Academy of Science The Academy's Fellows [including profiles and other relevant links] Canberra Australian Academy of Science 2019 Journal Article: Otto Herzberg Frankel 1900-1998 Evans, Lloyd Otto Herzberg Frankel 1900-1998 1999 Historical Records of Australian Science 12 4 495-516 Journal Article: Otto Frankel - the Austrian Who Gave New Zealanders Their Daily Bread Braund, James Otto Frankel - the Austrian Who Gave New Zealanders Their Daily Bread 2002 New Zealand Science Review 59 1 13-16 Book: CSIRO research for Australia: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization CSIRO CSIRO research for Australia: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization Canberra Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Organisation 1962 Resource Section: Sir Otto Herzberg Frankel Ward, C. Sir Otto Herzberg Frankel Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) 2011 CSIROpedia Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Journal Article: Sir Roy Grounds, 1905-1981 Frankel, O. H. Sir Roy Grounds, 1905-1981 1982 Historical Records of Australian Science 5 3 89-91 Journal Article: The Social Responsibility of Agricultural Science Frankel, O. H. The Social Responsibility of Agricultural Science 1963 Australian Journal of Science 25 301-307 Journal Article: Walter Lawry Waterhouse Watson, I. A.; and Frankel, O. H. Walter Lawry Waterhouse 1972 Records of the Australian Academy of Science 2 3 76-91 Journal Article: John Edwin Rogers Falk Lemberg, M. R.; and Frankel, O. H. John Edwin Rogers Falk 1972 Records of the Australian Academy of Science 2 3 92-107 Book: The conservation of plant biodiversity Frankel,, Otto; Brown, D. H.; and Burdon, Jeremy J. The conservation of plant biodiversity Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1995 Resource Section: Frankel, Sir Otto Herzberg (1900 - 1998), plant scientist Peacock, W. J. and Dennis, Elizabeth S. Frankel, Sir Otto Herzberg (1900 - 1998), plant scientist Canberra National Centre of Biography, Australian National University 2023 Australian dictionary of biography Journal Article: Sir Otto Herzberg Frankel 4 November 1900 - 21 November 1998: elected F.R.S. 1953 Evans, Lloyd T. Sir Otto Herzberg Frankel 4 November 1900 - 21 November 1998: elected F.R.S. 1953 1999 Biographical memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 45 165-81 Resource Section: Interview with Sir Otto Frankel (1900-1998), plant physiologist Blythe, Max Interview with Sir Otto Frankel (1900-1998), plant physiologist Australian Academy of Science 1993 Interviews with Australian scientists Journal Article: Australian Genetics: a Brief History McCann, D. A.; and Batterham, P. Australian Genetics: a Brief History 1993 Genetica 90 2-3 81-114 Resource: Farrer Memorial Trust Medal recipients and orations New South Wales Department of Primary Industries Farrer Memorial Trust Medal recipients and orations Sydney New South Wales Department of Primary Industries 2023 Otto Herzberg Frankel - Records National Archives of Australia, National Office Otto Herzberg Frankel - Records 1920 - 1990 Various files covering: personal correspondence 1936-90; CSIR/O up to December 1951; publications, newspaper cuttings and reports from New Zealand 1920s-51; material on the Lysenko controversy 1948-9; Royal Society of London records 1953; Australian Academy of Science correspondence 1953; lectures 1951-62; records relating to the International Biological Programme, Gene Pools Committee 1966-72; United Nations Environment Programme 1973-5; United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation 1968-70; Crop genetic resources for today and tomorrow, correspondence and reviews 1972-77; seed conservation, notes and correspondence 1974-76; subject files; oral history recording 1985 [32 files]. Audio, Photographs Otto Herzberg Frankel - Records Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science Otto Herzberg Frankel - Records MS 106 1964 - c. 1998 Records connected with the XII Pacific Science Congress 1971; the Science and Society Forum of the Australian Academy of Science 1972-75; the Review Committee of the Australian Academy of Science 1977-79; the Pacific Science Association; and the International Biological Programme 1964-74; biographical material; correspondence. 3.29 m, 16 boxes Otto Herzberg Frankel - Records Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Corporate Records and Archives Strategies Otto Herzberg Frankel - Records Se 625, 626 and 463 1957 - 1971 Folders of correspondence on the International Biological Programme 1965-71 [25 cm, Series 625]. Folders of correspondence 1957-69 [25 cm, Series 626]. Sequence copies of outward correspondence 1962-62 [12 cm, Series 463]. Confidential Christchurch file 1934-39 including a report on New Zealand genetic research [1 cm, Series 1143]. WIRC records [30 cm, TRN/84/9/5/5]. Personal history file [PH/FRA/54]. Otto Herzberg Frankel - Records Private hands (Thomson, A.D.) Otto Herzberg Frankel - Records 1949 - 1964 Correspondence 1949-64 between Frankel and J.B. Hair ( -1979) a New Zealand cytogeneticist and a few letters to T.W. Rawson [78 items]. 78 items Lloyd Thomas Evans - Records Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science Lloyd Thomas Evans - Records MS 213 Australian Academy of Science correspondence, 1977-2004; lectures and papers relating to institutions and journals, 1965-2002; books and reviews, 1959-2002; selected correspondence and biographical materials, 1975-2003; material relating to overseas travels, 1954-1977; research correspondence and papers, 1963-1998; notes and materials on J. G. Crawford, 1982-2001; and notes and materials on Otto Frankel, 1993-2002. 0.7 m, 5 boxes