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Iraida Pavlova Morozova: Reading the Rocks of Time |
| Section: NATURAL SCIENCE / SCIENTISTS: PAST AND PRESENT |
| Author: John Soennichsen |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1998 |
| Size: 2,747 Words, 17,040 Characters |
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From her laboratory in Moscow to the rugged slopes of Mongolia's Altai Mountains, Iraida Pavlova Morozova has doggedly pursued her specialized field for nearly half a century, searching for clues to unravel age-old scientific mysteries. Hers is a lifetime of research conducted under adverse conditions, all the while quietly employing what she calls "a sixth sense" about her particular field of paleontology.
Professor Morozova is known around the world as the grande dame of Permian bryozoan paleontology. As a long-standing member of the bryozoan group at the Institute of Paleontology in Moscow, she has focused her studies since 1952 on these microscopic marine animals, which live on the floor of the earth's oceans. The extinct orders she studies lived some 245 million years ago during a ...
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...t of seeing things nobody else has--discovering a new genus or species, or confirming a theory you had earlier developed. And, of course, there is the immense satisfaction that comes from doing something significant with your life--spending your life in search of knowledge. This, I believe, is why Iraida is as excited about her work now as when she began her career nearly a half century ago."
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