Education
Bos (Dutch for "forest") studied forestry at the Wageningen University.
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Bos (Dutch for "forest") studied forestry at the Wageningen University.
While a student in Wageningen, he was the coxwain of the Dutch coxed pair, which was eliminated in the repechage at the 1960 Olympics. He specialized in the flora of Sub-Saharan Africa and spent six years in South Africa, Liberia, Cameroon, and Ethiopia where he collected over 10,000 plants. In 1985 he led an expedition to Gabon.
In the 1980s he was a presenter for the Dutch nature television series Ja, natuurlijk ("Yes, naturally").
In 1984 he defended a Doctor of Philosophy on a study of the plants of the genus Dracaena in West Africa.
From 1968 on he worked at his Wageningen University, becoming a faculty member of the department of plant systematics.