page_title: Rod Bieleski
hierarchical_section_title: Rod Bieleski
caption_attribution_description: English: Rod Bieleski, after his investiture as MNZM, for services to horticultural science, on 24 August 2010
context_page_description: Roderick Leon Bieleski MNZM was a New Zealand plant physiologist.
  Born in Auckland on 3 August 1931, Bieleski attended Auckland University College, graduating with an MSc with first-class honours in 1955. After completing a PhD on the process of sugar transport in sugar cane at the University of Sydney in 1958, he began a research career at the New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, retiring in 1996. From 1980 to 1988 he was the director of the DSIR's division of horticulture and processing.
  He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1973, and won the society's Hector Medal in 1984. He was awarded a DSc by thesis by the University of Sydney in 1990, and he was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to horticultural science in the 2010 New Year Honours.
  Bieleski died in Takapuna on 15 November 2016.
context_section_description: Roderick Leon Bieleski MNZM (3 August 1931 – 15 November 2016) was a New Zealand plant physiologist.
  Born in Auckland on 3 August 1931, Bieleski attended Auckland University College, graduating with an MSc with first-class honours in 1955. After completing a PhD on the process of sugar transport in sugar cane at the University of Sydney in 1958, he began a research career at the New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), retiring in 1996. From 1980 to 1988 he was the director of the DSIR's division of horticulture and processing.
  He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1973, and won the society's Hector Medal in 1984. He was awarded a DSc by thesis by the University of Sydney in 1990, and he was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to horticultural science in the 2010 New Year Honours.
  Bieleski died in Takapuna on 15 November 2016.
caption: Bieleski in 2010
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