Otto Frankel

Sir Otto Herzberg Frankel FRS FAA FRSNZ (4 November 1900, Vienna – 21 November 1998, Canberra) was an Austrian-born New Zealand and Australian geneticist.[1][2][3][4] In the 1960s and 1970s he was among the first to warn of the dangers of plant biodiversity loss.[5]

  1. ^ Evans, L. T. (1999). "Sir Otto Herzberg Frankel. 4 November 1900 -- 21 November 1998: Elected F.R.S. 1953". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 45: 165. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1999.0012.
  2. ^ "Knight Bachelor" Archived 6 January 2017 at the Wayback Machine, 1 January 1966, It's an Honour, "Chief of the Plant Industry Division of the CSIRO".
  3. ^ L.T. Evans, "Otto Frankel 1900–1998", Biographical memoirs, www.science.org.au. Originally published in Historical Records of Australian Science, vol.12, no.4, 1999.
  4. ^ "Frankel, Otto Herzberg (1900–1998)", Biographical entry, Encyclopaedia of Australian Science.
  5. ^ Gabriel Wilder (26 March 2012). "ERNA BENNETT, 1925–2012". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 18 October 2014.