Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska
| Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska | |
|---|---|
| Born | Zofia Kielan 25 April 1925 |
| Died | 13 March 2015 (aged 89) |
| Nationality | Polish |
| Fields | Paleontology |
| Institutions | Polska Akademia Nauk |
| Alma mater | Warsaw University |
| Notable awards | |
| Spouse | Zbigniew Jaworowski (m. 1958) |
Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska (25 April 1925 – 13 March 2015) was a Polish paleobiologist. 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.
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. 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 Czech 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.
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