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Ignacy Łukasiewicz

1822 - 1882

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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). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ignacy Łukasiewicz is the 263rd most popular chemist (down from 202nd in 2019), the 248th most popular biography from Poland (down from 231st in 2019) and the 13th most popular Polish Chemist.

Ignacy Łukasiewicz is most famous for his work on the Polish language and his invention of the Łukasiewicz logic, a variant of propositional logic.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Ignacy Łukasiewicz ranks 263 out of 602. Before him are Ida Noddack, Alfred G. Gilman, Vladimir Markovnikov, Stephanie Kwolek, John Polanyi, and Fritz Strassmann. After him are Martin Rodbell, Dudley R. Herschbach, Edwin G. Krebs, Emil Erlenmeyer, Fraser Stoddart, and Franz Karl Achard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1822, Ignacy Łukasiewicz ranks 23. Before him are Rosa Bonheur, Adelaide of Austria, Midhat Pasha, Joseph Bertrand, Francis, Duke of Cádiz, and Robert Luther. After him are Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies, Olga Nikolaevna of Russia, Prince Ferdinando, Duke of Genoa, Red Cloud, Juan, Count of Montizón, and Henri Murger. Among people deceased in 1882, Ignacy Łukasiewicz ranks 23. Before him are Thomas Hill Green, Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Karl-Maria Kertbeny, Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, and Sergey Nechayev. After him are Richard Henry Dana Jr., Mary Todd Lincoln, Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play, Ewelina Hańska, Jørgen Moe, and Henry Draper.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Ignacy Łukasiewicz ranks 248 out of 1,694. Before him are Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1865), Arnold Zweig (1887), Martin Agricola (1486), Magdalena Abakanowicz (1930), Alexander von Falkenhausen (1878), and Johanna Schopenhauer (1766). After him are Otto von Below (1857), Hans Modrow (1928), Elisabeth Volkenrath (1919), Akiba Rubinstein (1880), Tadeusz Mazowiecki (1927), and Itzhak Stern (1901).

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Among CHEMISTS In Poland

Among chemists born in Poland, Ignacy Łukasiewicz ranks 13. Before him are Casimir Funk (1884), Antoni Grabowski (1857), Clara Immerwahr (1870), Johann Wilhelm Ritter (1776), Richard Abegg (1869), and Ignacy Mościcki (1867). After him are Fritz London (1900), Kazimierz Fajans (1887), Sendivogius (1566), Jeremias Benjamin Richter (1762), Jan Czochralski (1885), and Alfred Stock (1876).

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