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Ignacy Łukasiewicz
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Ignacy Łukasiewicz was a Polish chemist, pharmacist, academic, and inventor. Born in Zaduszniki, Podkarpackie Voivodeship, he held citizenship in the Austrian Empire and Austria–Hungary. He received his education at Jagiellonian University and worked in the fields of pharmacy and chemistry.
Łukasiewicz died of pneumonia in Chorkówka. His manner of death was natural causes. He is described in the Polish Biographical Dictionary.
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Austria–Hungary
- Place of birth
- Zaduszniki, Podkarpackie Voivodeship
- Place of death
- Chorkówka
- Occupation
- entrepreneur
- Educated at
- Jagiellonian University
- Languages spoken
- Polish
- Field of work
- chemistry
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- Ignacy Lukasiewicz.jpg
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- Ignacy Łukasiewicz
- date of birth
- 1822-03-23
- date of death
- 1882-01-07
- cause of death
- pneumonia
- manner of death
- natural causes
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- name in native language
- Ignacy Łukasiewicz
- described by source
- Polish Biographical Dictionary
- described at URL
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Encyclopedic overview
Jan Józef Ignacy Łukasiewicz ( Polish pronunciation: [iɡˈnatsɨ wukaˈɕɛvitʂ] ; 8 March 1822 – 7 January 1882) 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.
His achievements included the discovery of how to distill kerosene from seep crude oil, the invention of the modern kerosene lamp (1853), the introduction of the first modern street lamp in Europe (1853), and the construction of the world's first modern oil well (1854).
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