Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska

Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska (25 April 1925 – 13 March 2015) was a Polish paleontologist.

Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska
Born
Zofia Kielan

(1925-04-25)25 April 1925
Died13 March 2015(2015-03-13) (aged 89)
NationalityPolish
Alma materWarsaw University
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsPaleontology
InstitutionsPolish 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

  • 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.

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