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Ignacy Łukasiewicz
1822 - 1882 · Pharmacist, Chemist, Industrialist · b. in Zaduszniki
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Polish pharmacist, engineer, businessman, inventor and philanthropist
Jan Józef Ignacy Łukasiewicz was a Polish pharmacist, engineer, businessman, inventor, and philanthropist. He was one of the most prominent philanthropists in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, crown land of Austria-Hungary. He was a pioneer who in 1856 built the world's first modern oil refinery.
Key achievements
- 01Invented the kerosene lamp (1853)
- 02Founded an early oil industry in Galicia
- 03A pioneer of petroleum refining
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