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Apr 28, 1944 Wieringermeer, North Holland, Netherlands 80 years old
Dutch botanist (born 1944)
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About Pieter Baas
- Pieter Baas (born 28 April 1944) is a Dutch botanist.
- He is an emeritus professor of plant systematics at Leiden University.
- He served as director of the Rijksherbarium of Leiden University between 1991 and 1999.
- When the institute was faced with budget cuts in 1993 he managed to preserve the collection by joining it with the university collections of Wageningen and Utrecht.
- This led to the founding of the National Herbarium of the Netherlands in 1999.
- Baas subsequently became director of the institute and served until 2005.
- As a botanist Baas specializes in wood anatomy.
