Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska

Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska
Born
Zofia Kielan

(1925-04-25)25 April 1925
Sokołów Podlaski, Poland
Died13 March 2015(2015-03-13) (aged 89)
Warsaw, Poland
NationalityPolish
Alma materWarsaw University
Spouse
Zbigniew Jaworowski
​
(m. 1958)​
[1]
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsPaleontology
InstitutionsPolish Academy of Sciences
Thesis (1953)
Righteous
Among the Nations
By country

Zofia Emilia Kielan-Jaworowska[2] (25 April 1925 – 13 March 2015) was a Polish paleobiologist. In the mid-1960s, she led a series of 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][3][4] The most notable dinosaur species she discovered include: Deinocheirus and Gallimimus while Kielanodon and Zofiabaatar were named in her honour.

In her obituary in Nature, Richard L. Cifelli wrote that "Much of what we know about the origin and early evolution of mammals stems, directly or indirectly, from [her work]".[5]

  1. ^ a b 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.
  2. ^ "Postanowienie Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej z dnia 2 sierpnia 2002 r. o nadaniu orderów" (PDF). isap.sejm.gov.pl (in Polish). 2002-08-02. Retrieved 2024-05-18.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ 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 achieved as much as she.]. Wyborcza (in Polish). Retrieved 16 March 2015.
  5. ^ Cifelli, Richard L. (April 2015). "Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska (1925–2015)". Nature. 520 (7546): 158–158. doi:10.1038/520158a. ISSN 1476-4687.