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Alina Szeminska
Alina Szeminska was a Polish psychologist known for her work in cognitive development and mathematics in children alongside famous psychologist Jean Piaget. Born 1907, Szeminska lived to be 77, passing away in Warsaw in 1986.

Biography
Alina Szeminska originally intended to study medicine at the University of Warsaw, but when she was denied entry as a woman, she turned to focus to psychology and began working with Wolfgang Köhler. She then was sent to the University of Geneva, where Jean Piaget was a professor. She began studying mathematics in children and was hired at the university following her graduation. After working at the university for several years, in 1939 Szeminska returned to Poland as WWII was taking shape. By 1943 she would be in Auschwitz where she would remain until the end of the war.

After leaving Auschwitz Szeminska founded an orphanage clinic in Warsaw, Poland, putting her skills in psychology to work. She then returned to her work in psychology, no longer with Jean Piaget, she continued her research in mathematics in children at the Warsaw Pedagogical Institute. Only after her many years of research and the few years she spent in Auschwitz did the University of Geneva award her an honorary doctorate.

List of Major Works
Szeminska, A. (1947). Psychological care of children outside of school. Psychologia Wychowawcza, 12(2-3), 48-55.

Piaget, J., Inhelder, B., & Szeminska, A. (1948). La geometrie spontanee de l’enfant. Presses Universitaires de France.

Piaget, J. Inhelder, B., & Szeminska, A. (1960). The child’s conception of geometry. Basic Books.

Piaget, J. & Szeminska, A. (1965). The child’s conception of number. W.W. Norton & Co.

Szeminska, A. & Gotab, A. (1969). The norm ‘don’t steal’ in the moral consciousness of delinquent and nondelinquent youth. Psychologia Wychowawcza, 12(4), 461-471.

Piaget, J., Grize, J. B., Szeminska, A., & Bang, V. (1977). Epistemology and psychology of functions. D. Reidel.

Szeminska, A. (1980). Piaget’s theory of cognitive development. Psychologia Wychowawcza, 23(5), 565-577.