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Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska

1925 - 2015

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Zofia Emilia Kielan-Jaworowska (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. The most notable dinosaur species she discovered include: Deinocheirus and Gallimimus while Kielanodon and Zofiabaatar were named in her honour. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska is the 786th most popular biologist (up from 843rd in 2019), the 936th most popular biography from Poland (up from 1,086th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Polish Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska ranks 786 out of 1,097. Before her are Émil Goeldi, Karl Moritz Schumann, Johann Natterer, Bernard Heuvelmans, Karl Julius Perleb, and Michel Félix Dunal. After her are Eduard Oscar Schmidt, Josephine Kablick, Johan Lange, Albert Bruce Jackson, Émile Blanchard, and Eduard von Martens.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska ranks 314. Before her are Luis Alberto Monge, James Salter, Mary F. Lyon, Yasushi Akutagawa, Amparo Rivelles, and Gizella Farkas. After her are Theodore Levitt, Attilâ İlhan, Duane Hanson, Eugene Garfield, John Shepherd-Barron, and Gérard Kango Ouédraogo. Among people deceased in 2015, Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska ranks 289. Before her are James Salter, Milorad Milutinović, Roger Rees, Barbro Hiort af Ornäs, Mary Ellen Trainor, and Peter Gay. After her are Jimmy Murray, Lynn Anderson, Edward Natapei, Jaroslav Holík, Ali Treki, and Helmut Dietl.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska ranks 936 out of 1,694. Before her are Konstantin Kalinin (1887), Martin Gray (1922), Fritz Stern (1926), Stanisław Kowalski (1910), Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski (1503), and Tommy Wiseau (1955). After her are Adam Zamenhof (1888), Michalina Wisłocka (1921), Janusz Kamiński (1959), Tadeusz Kotarbiński (1886), Adam Asnyk (1838), and Jan T. Gross (1947).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Poland

Among biologists born in Poland, Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska ranks 18. Before her are Heinrich von Kittlitz (1799), Martin Rathke (1793), Ludwik Hirszfeld (1884), Władysław Taczanowski (1819), Michael Sela (1924), Wilhelm Hemprich (1796), Heinrich Göppert (1800), Johannes Thiele (1860), and Aharon Katzir (1914). After her are Walter Migula (1863), and Jan Sztolcman (1854).

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