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Ignacy Łukasiewicz
Born March 8, 1822 in Zaduszniki near Mielec (Galicia, in 1822 Austrian empire)Died January 7, 1882, in Chorkówka.
Jan Józef Ignacy Łukasiewicz was a Polish pharmacist and petroleum industry pioneer who in 1856 built the first oil refinery in the world. Among his other achievements were the discovery of how to distill kerosene from seep 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 first oil well in Poland (1854). Łukasiewicz became a wealthy man and one of the most prominent philanthropists in Galicia.
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