Background
Kielan-Jaworowska, Zofia was born on April 25, 1925 in Sokolow, Poland. Daughter of Franciszek and Maria (Osinska) Kielan.
paleontologist university professor
Kielan-Jaworowska, Zofia was born on April 25, 1925 in Sokolow, Poland. Daughter of Franciszek and Maria (Osinska) Kielan.
Kielan-Jaworowska"s studies began in the aftermath of the Second World War: as Warsaw University"s department of geology had been destroyed in 1939, she attended lectures in Roman Kozłowski"s apartment.
In the mid-1960s Kielan-Jaworowska led a series of Polish-Mongolian paleontological expeditions to the Gobi Desert. Kielan-Jaworowska was the first woman to serve on the executive committee of the International Union of Geological Sciences. She subsequently earned a master"s degree in zoology and a paleontology doctorate at Warsaw University, where she later became a professor
Kielan-Jaworowska was employed by the Instytut Paleobiologii of the Polska Akademia Nauk.
She held a number of functions in professional organizations in Poland and the United States, and was the first woman to serve on the executive committee of the International Union of Geological Sciences. Kielan-Jaworowska"s work included the study of Devonian and Ordovician trilobites from Central Europe (Poland and Czechoslovakian Republic), leading several Polish-Mongolian paleontological expeditions to the Gobi Desert, and the discovery of new species of crocodiles, lizards, turtles, dinosaurs (notably Deinocheirus), birds and multituberculates.
She is author of the book Hunting for Dinosaurs, and a coauthor of the book Mammals from the Age of Dinosaurs. Her work was published widely in peer reviewed scientific journals, books and monographs.
Member Polish Geological Society, Paleontological Society (United States of America), Paleaontol. Association (Great Britain), Norwegian Palaeontol. Society (president 1989-1995), Polish Copernicus Society of Naturalists (honorary), Linnean Society London (honorary), Academy Europea, Polish Academy of Sciences (State prize 1974), Norwegian Academy of Sciences.
Married Zbigniew Jaworowski, 1958. 1 child, Mariusz.