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Polish pharmacist and petroleum industry pioneer (1822-1882)

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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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Place of death
Chorkówka
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chemistry
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1822-03-23
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1882-01-07
cause of death
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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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