Ljudmila Dolar Mantuani

Ljudmila Dolar Mantuani (5 July 1906 Celje, Slovenia – 22 September 1988 Toronto, Canada) was a Slovenian petrologist (a rock scientist). She was the first female assistant professor of petrography in Yugoslavia.

Life and work Dolar Mantuani graduated from the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia in 1929 and received her doctorate there in 1935. After graduation, she taught at a grammar school. In 1940, she was named assistant professor of petrography and optical exploration of minerals and rocks at the University of Ljubljana.

Dolar Mantuani furthered her studies at the universities of Zagreb, Croatia, Rome, Italy, Vancouver, Canada and Essen, Germany. She later became a research fellow at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and a scientific adviser at the Hydroelectric Power Commission of Ontario in Toronto.

After 1971, she worked as an independent researcher for several Canadian private and government institutions.

In papers that Dr. Dolar Mantuani authored after her move to North America, she is published with a slight change to the spelling of her name from Ljudmila to Ludmila Dolar-Mantuani (with hyphen added).

Early research Dolar Mantuani published an estimated 70 discussions and articles on mineralogy and petrology of Slovenia, Austria and Canada. Important to her early work were her explorations of the depths of Pohorje and tertiary tuffs at Peračica in the Upper Carniola region in Slovenia. Dolar-Mantuani, Ludmila. Handbook of concrete aggregates: a petrographic and technological evaluation. United States, Noyes Publications, 1983.