Alina Kabata-Pendias

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Alina Kabata-Pendias (2007)

Alina Kabata-Pendias (8 September 1929 – 3 April 2019) was a Polish

Armia Krajowa Cross
.

Early life and education

Alina Kabata was born in Baranavichy on 8 September 1929. She was the daughter of Helena, née Wojciechowicz, and Piotr Kabata, a Polish officer, at that time in the Border Protection Corps. She spent her childhood in various places in the Eastern Borderlands of the Second Polish Republic. During World War II, the whole family managed to get to the Kielce region in the General Government. From 1940, under the pseudonyms of "Żar" and "Wujek", the father was the commander of the Szydłów AK District and commanded an independent Home Army subversive unit. Like the other family members, young Alina was involved in the Polish resistance (nicknamed "Cicia"). Her brother was Zbigniew Kabata.[2][3]

Kabata-Pendias received degrees at the Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation in Pulawy (Ph.D.) and at the Agricultural University of Lublin (D.Sc.).[4]

Career

Kabata-Pendias was the manager or contractor of many scientific projects, including three in cooperation with

soil pollution with heavy metals and sulfur. Framework guidelines for agriculture between 1993 and 2002 was the only source for assessing the degree of environmental pollution by trace elements in Poland. She actively participated in the work of numerous committees of the Polish Academy of Sciences, including the chair of the Committee for Analysis for Agricultural Need of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and the MAB-9 Team of the Human and Environment Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She was a member of many scientific societies, including Polish Soil Science Society, Polish Mineralogical Society and Polish Geological Society, as well as the International Union of Soil Sciences, Society for Environmental Geochemistry and Health, the International Association for Study of Clay, and the New York Academy of Sciences. She sat on the presidium of the International Society of Trace Element Biochemistry.[1]

She died on 3 April 2019.[1]

Awards and honors

Kabata-Pendias received many awards for her achievements. The most important were:[1]

  • PTG Gold Badge (1972)
  • Golden Cross of Merit (1979)
  • Knight's Order of Polonia Restituta (1990)
  • Badge of Home Army soldiers (1992)
  • Armia Krajowa Cross
    (1994)
  • IUNG Director Award (1994)
  • Guerrilla Cross (1995)
  • Golden Badge of the Ministry of the Environment and Water Management (1995)
  • 1st degree team award granted by the Minister of Agriculture and Food Economy (1995)
  • Veterans Badge of Fight for Independence (1996)
  • Medal of the Rector of the Agricultural University of Lublin (1999)
  • Philippe Duchaufour Medal (2007)[4]
  • Medal of the 75th Anniversary of the Soil Science Society of Poland (2012)

Selected works

  • Trace Elements in Biological Environment (1979)
  • Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements (1993, 1999)
  • Trace Elements in Soils and Plants (1984, 1989, 1992, 2001)

References

  1. ^
    S2CID 198490917. Archived from the original
    on 16 February 2020. Retrieved 16 December 2019.
  2. ^ "Kapitan Piotr Kabata "Wujek" komendant Podobwodu AK Szydłów krypt. "Słonecznik" - Zeszyty Kombatanckie". zeszytykombatanckie.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 16 December 2019.
  3. ^ "Kabatowie – rodzina akowska". polesie.org (in Polish). Echa Polesia. 19 February 2015. Retrieved 16 December 2019.
  4. ^ a b "Alina Kabata-Pendias". European Geosciences Union (EGU). Retrieved 16 December 2019.
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