Roman Kozlowski

Roman Stanisław Jakub Kozlowski was a Polish paleontologist born February 1, 1889, in Włocławek, Poland, who died May 2, 1977, and who specialized in graptolites. He graduated from the Sorbonne in 1910 with a degree in natural sciences after studying at Swiss and Paris universities, worked at the Museum of Natural History in Paris until 1913, then became professor and director of Bolivia National School of Mines, and later served as the inaugural director of the Institute of Paleobiology of the Polish Academy of Sciences and founded the journal Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. He was a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, received the Mary Clark Thompson Medal of the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1958 and the Wollaston Medal in 1961, and the graptolite genus Kozlowskitubus is named in his honor.