Mentors: the generation 1935-1985
25 Susanna Drive, Durham, North Carolina, U.S.A.; jsorauf@binghamton.edu
Department of Geosciences, Graduate School of Science, Osaka City University, 3-3-138 Sugimoto, Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka 558-8585, Japan; ezaki@sci.osaka-cu.ac.jp
Institute of Geology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Maków Polnych 16, Pl 61-606 Poznań, Poland; jerzy@amu.edu.pl
School of Earth Sciences, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Qld 4120 Australia; j.jell@bigpond.com
Hokkaido University Museum, Kita 10, Nishi 8, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan
Instytut Nauk Geologicznych, Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Oleandry 2a, 30-063 Krakow, Poland; elzbieta.moryc@uj.edu.pl
Instytut Paleobiologii PAN, Twarda 51/55, 00-818 Warszawa, Poland; eron@twarda.pan.pl
Abstract
The lives and scientific contributions of five eminent academic geologists and paleontologists; James Alloiteau (Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France), Dorothy Hill (University of Queensland, Australia), Marius Lecompte (University of Louvain, Belgium), Masao Minato (Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan), and Maria Różkowska (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) are briefly summarized here. Each of these paleontologists made major contributions to the study of fossil corals and/or sponges, and each overcame considerable difficulties and disruptions in their lives to excel as mentors to us. All showed remarkable determination and love for paleontological research, and inspired their students and colleagues to understand details of structure and systematic positions of fossil corals and sponges. Each of these individual mentors was the subject of a presentation by a former student at the 11th International Symposium on Fossil Corals and Sponges in Liege, Belgium; thus, somewhat broader coverage of each is provided in the abstracts volume of the meeting.