Frankel, Otto Herzberg (1900 - 1998)

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.

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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, The Royal Society, London (FRS)

1954

Award - Foundation Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (FAA)

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

Related entries

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

• Smith, Ailie, Adolph Basser Library Manuscript Collection, eScholarship Research Centre, 2012, http://www.eoas.info/basser_browse.html. Details

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

• Braund, James, 'Otto Frankel - the Austrian Who Gave New Zealanders Their Daily Bread', New Zealand Science Review, 59 (1) (2002), 13-16. Details
• Evans, Lloyd, 'Otto Herzberg Frankel 1900-1998', Historical Records of Australian Science, 12 (4) (1999), 495-516. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9991240495. Details
• Evans, Lloyd T., 'Sir Otto Herzberg Frankel 4 November 1900 - 21 November 1998: elected F.R.S. 1953', Biographical memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 45 (1999), 165-81. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbm.1999.0012. Details
• Frankel, O. H., 'The Social Responsibility of Agricultural Science', Australian Journal of Science, 25 (1963), 301-307. Details
• Frankel, O. H., 'Sir Roy Grounds, 1905-1981', Historical Records of Australian Science, 5 (3) (1982), 89-91. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9820530089. Details
• Lemberg, M. R.; and Frankel, O. H., 'John Edwin Rogers Falk', Records of the Australian Academy of Science, 2 (3) (1972), 92-107. http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9720230092.htm. Details
• Watson, I. A.; and Frankel, O. H., 'Walter Lawry Waterhouse', Records of the Australian Academy of Science, 2 (3) (1972), 76-91. http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9720230076.htm. Details

Resources

• VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/59190985. Details
• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7109590. Details
• 'Frankel, Otto Herzberg (1900 - 1998)', Fellows of the Academy, Australian Academy of Science, 2019, https://www.science.org.au/profile/otto-frankel. Details
• 'Frankel, Otto (1900-1998)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-471622. Details

Resource Sections

• 'Frankel, Otto Herzberg - Ms 106', in Listing of Adolph Basser Library holdings, Australian Academy of Science, 1994, http://www.science.org.au/basser/manuscript-collection/ms106.html. Details
• Blythe, Max, 'Interview with Sir Otto Frankel (1900-1998)', in Interviews with Australian scientists, Australian Academy of Science, 1993, https://www.science.org.au/learning/general-audience/history/interviews-australian-scientists/sir-otto-frankel-1900-1998-plant. Details
• Peacock, W. J. and Dennis, Elizabeth S., 'Frankel, Sir Otto Herzberg (1900 - 1998), plant scientist', in Australian dictionary of biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, Canberra, 2023, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/frankel-sir-otto-herzberg-32204. Details
• Ward, C., 'Sir Otto Herzberg Frankel', in CSIROpedia, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), 2011, https://csiropedia.csiro.au/Frankel-Sir-Otto-Herzberg. Details

See also

• McCann, D. A.; and Batterham, P., 'Australian Genetics: a Brief History', Genetica, 90 (2-3) (1993), 81-114. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01435033. Details