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Ignacy Łukasiewicz

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Polish pharmacist and petroleum industry pioneer (1822-1882)

ScientistsLived 1822 to 1882 · aged 59
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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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Scientists
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Scientist
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deceased
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Lived 1822 to 1882 · aged 59
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