Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 910 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION |
| Elected: | 1990 |
| Main Country of Residence: | POLAND |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.paleo.pan.pl/pracownicy/kielan-jaworowska/zofia_kielan-jaworowska.html |
Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska passed away March 13, 2015.
Positions Held
- 1995 Professor Emeritus associated with the Institute of Paleobiology , Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
- 1987-1995 Professor of Paleontology at the University of Oslo, Norway
- 1984-1987 Head of the Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory, Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
- 1961-1982 Professor and Director of the Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
- 1961 Full Professor at the Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
- 1953 Ph. D. in paleontology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Warsaw University
- 1948-1952 Assistant at the Department of Paleontology, Warsaw University, Poland
Fields of Scholarship
- Mesozoic mammals of the world
- Paleozoic invertebrates
Honours and Awards
- Member of the Palaeontological Association (Great Britain)
- Member of the Norwegian Paleontological Society, beginning with 1987 (president 1989-1994)
- Honorary member of the Polish Copernicus Society of Naturalists, Poland
- Honorary member of the Linnean Society (London), Great Britain
- Honorary member of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (USA)
- Member (Academician) of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
- Polish State Prize for work on early mammals 1974
- Vice-president of the International Union of Geological Sciences, 1980-1989
- Vice-president of the International Paleontological Association, 1980-1992
- Foreign member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences 1989
- Member of Academia Europaea 1991
- Doctor honoris causa of the University of Camerino, Italy,1989
- The Alfred Jurzykowski Prize of the Kościuszko Foundation in New York, 1994
- Romer-Simpson medal of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, USA 1995
- Prime Minister's Prize for Outstanding Scientific Achievements 2005
- Prize of the Foundation for Polish Science for the book: Z. Kielan-Jaworowska, R. L. Cifelli, and Z.-X. Luo, Mammals from the Age of Dinosaurs: Origins, Evolution, and Structure. 630 pp. Columbia University Press, New York, 2004. 2005
