CHEMIST

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ignacy Łukasiewicz has received more than 206,049 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Ignacy Łukasiewicz is the 202nd most popular chemist (up from 261st in 2019), the 231st most popular biography from Poland (up from 287th in 2019) and the 11th 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 202 out of 602. Before him are William Standish Knowles, Louis Jacques Thénard, Max Perutz, John Vane, Hermann Kolbe, and Osamu Shimomura. After him are Mario J. Molina, Nikolay Semyonov, Charles Adolphe Wurtz, Kenichi Fukui, John Fenn, and Johan Gottlieb Gahn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1822, Ignacy Łukasiewicz ranks 22. Before him are Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, Edmond de Goncourt, Rosa Bonheur, Midhat Pasha, Adelaide of Austria, and Olga Nikolaevna of Russia. After him are Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies, Red Cloud, Juan, Count of Montizón, Henri Murger, Henri d'Orléans, Duke of Aumale, and Joseph Bertrand. Among people deceased in 1882, Ignacy Łukasiewicz ranks 16. Before him are William Stanley Jevons, Francesco Hayez, Léon Gambetta, Louis Blanc, Joseph Liouville, and Mary Todd Lincoln. After him are Vasily Perov, Ewelina Hańska, Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Sergey Nechayev, Henri Giffard, and Mikhail Skobelev.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Ignacy Łukasiewicz ranks 231 out of 1,694. Before him are Felix Hausdorff (1868), Samuel Reshevsky (1911), Władysław II the Exile (1105), Ernst Toller (1893), Aleksandra Ekster (1882), and Zbigniew Boniek (1956). After him are Siegbert Tarrasch (1862), Tadeusz Mazowiecki (1927), Aleksander Kwaśniewski (1954), Elisabeth Volkenrath (1919), Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska (1676), and Karl Ludwig Hencke (1793).

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Among CHEMISTS In Poland

Among chemists born in Poland, Ignacy Łukasiewicz ranks 11. Before him are Friedrich Bergius (1884), Tadeusz Reichstein (1897), Konrad Emil Bloch (1912), Clara Immerwahr (1870), Ignacy Mościcki (1867), and Johann Wilhelm Ritter (1776). After him are Antoni Grabowski (1857), Richard Abegg (1869), Sendivogius (1566), Fritz London (1900), Hugo Erdmann (1862), and Kazimierz Fajans (1887).

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