Franciszek Adamczak (1 March 1927 – 16 July 2000) was a Polish–Swedish
palaeontologist who made major contributions to the study of
Palaeozoicostracods.
Biography
Born in Poland, Franciszek J. Adamczak studied geology at the
University of Warsaw. He worked there for ten years, starting in 1954. In 1964 he emigrated to Sweden, took Swedish nationality, and worked at the
Stockholm University;[1] he also became a member of the Swedish Geological Society.[2] At the end of life he participated in a project aiming at producing a new edition of the ostracod volume (Part Q) of the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. As this project did not come to fruition, his papers were published posthumously by a collaborator, German ostracodologist Gerhard Becker.[1]
Research
Overview
Franciszek Adamczak worked on the
morphology,
systematics, and
evolution of Palaeozoic ostracods. Among his discoveries, one may note the description of Eridostraca (= Eridostracina Adamczak, 1961),[3] interpreted either as a primitive
suborder of ostracods or as a different group of
microcrustaceans.[4] Franciszek Adamczak also described several ostracod
genera, like Kuresaaria Adamczak, 1967[5] or Guerichiella Adamczak, 1968.[6]
^Adamczak, Franciszek (1968). "Palaeocopa and Platycopa Ostracoda from Middle Devonian rocks in the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland". Stockholm Contributions in Geology. 17: 1–109.
ISSN0585-3532.
^Adamczak, Franciszek (1976). "Middle Devonian Podocopida (Ostracoda) from Poland: their morphology, systematics and occurrence". Senckenbergiana Lethaea. 57 (4/6): 265–467.
^Adamczak, Franciszek✝ (2006). "Contributions to Palaeozoic Ostracod Classification. "Non-kloedenellacean" ostracods. 3. Family Glyptopleuridae GIRTY, 1910. Ambigous forms". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen. 241: 1–24.
doi:
10.1127/njgpa/241/2006/1.