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Polish palaeontologist
Roman Stanisław Jakub Kozłowski
(1 February 1889 ? 2 May 1977) was a Polish
palaeontologist
, best known for his work on
graptolites
.
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Kozłowski was born in
Włocławek
, north-west of Warsaw, on 1 February 1889.
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He studied at universities in Switzerland and Paris, graduating from the Sorbonne in 1910 with a licentiate in natural sciences.
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Kozłowski worked at the Museum of Natural History in Paris until 1913, when he moved to Bolivia to become professor and director of the National School of Mines.
[2]
Kozłowski was a member of the
Polish Academy of Sciences
, inaugural director of the Academy's Institute of Paleobiology, and founder of
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
.
[3]
Kozłowski was awarded the
Mary Clark Thompson Medal
in 1958 from the
National Academy of Sciences
[4]
and the
Wollaston Medal
in 1961.
The
graptolite genus
Kozlowskitubus
was named after him.
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