Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska
Polish paleobiologist (1925-2015)
Zofia Emilia Kielan-Jaworowska (25 April 1925 – 13 March 2015) was a Polish paleontologist.
Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska | |
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| Born | Zofia Kielan 25 April 1925 Sokołów Podlaski, Poland |
| Died | 13 March 2015 (aged 89) |
| Nationality | Polish |
| Alma mater | Warsaw University |
| Spouse |
Zbigniew Jaworowski (m. 1958) |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Paleontology |
| Institutions | Polish Academy of Sciences |
| Thesis | (1953) |
In the mid-1960s, she led eight Polish-Mongolian paleontological expeditions to the Gobi Desert.
She was the first woman to serve on the executive committee of the International Union of Geological Sciences.[1][2][3]
Her most important work was on the mammals of the Mesozoic era.
Books
change- Kielan-Jaworowska Z. 1969, 1974. Hunting for dinosaurs. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-61007-0
- Lillegraven, Jason A.; Kielan-Jaworowska, Zofia; Clemens, William A., eds. (1979). Mesozoic mammals : the first two-thirds of mammalian history. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520039513.
- Kielan-Jaworowska, Zofia; Cifelli, Richard L.; Luo, Zhe-Xi (2004). Mammals from the age of dinosaurs : origins, evolution, and structure. Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-11918-6.
- Kielan-Jaworowska, Z. (2013). In pursuit of early mammals. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-00817-6.
References
change- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey; Harvey, Joy (2000). The biographical dictionary of women in science: pioneering lives from ancient times to the mid-20th century, Volume 1. Taylor & Francis. p. 694. ISBN 978-0-415-92038-4.
- ↑ Richard L. Cifelli [in French] (2015). "Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska (1925-2015) Discoverer of early mammals". Nature. 520 (7546): 158. doi:10.1038/520158a. PMID 25855448.
- ↑ Mikołuszko, Wojciech (13 March 2015). "Zmarła prof. Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska, wybitna paleontolożka. Niewielu polskich uczonych osiągnęło tyle, co ona" [Prof. Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska, outstanding paleontologist, has died. Few Polish scholars did as much as she.]. Wyborcza (in Polish). Retrieved 16 March 2015.