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Ignacy Łukasiewicz

Polish pharmacist and petroleum industry pioneer (1822-1882) · Scientists · Died at 59

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.

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Lived 1822 to 1882 · aged 59