Jadwiga Wołoszyńska

Jadwiga Wołoszyńska (5 April 1882 in Nadwórna – 30 August 1951 in Kraków) was a Polish botanist known for studying algology, limnology, and paleobotany. She identified new types and species (e.g. Prorocentrum cassubicum (Woloszynska) Dodge (1975) of algae and studied lakes in Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, Java, Sumatra and Africa