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Ignacy Łukasiewicz

1822 - 1882

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Jan Józef Ignacy Łukasiewicz (Polish pronunciation: [iɡˈnat͡sɨ wukaˈɕɛvit͡ʂ]; 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 199,860 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Ignacy Łukasiewicz is the 261st most popular chemist (down from 204th in 2019), the 287th most popular biography from Poland (down from 254th in 2019) and the 12th 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 261 out of 509Before him are Geoffrey Wilkinson, Kikunae Ikeda, Martin Karplus, Carl Auer von Welsbach, Roger D. Kornberg, and Christian Friedrich Schönbein. After him are Emil Abderhalden, Alexander Butlerov, Martin Rodbell, Luis Federico Leloir, Carl Gustaf Mosander, and Vladimir Markovnikov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1822, Ignacy Łukasiewicz ranks 24Before him are Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, Olga Nikolaevna of Russia, Rosa Bonheur, Red Cloud, Henri Murger, and Juan, Count of Montizón. After him are Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies, Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Henri d'Orléans, Duke of Aumale, Robert Luther, Prince Ferdinando, Duke of Genoa, and Joseph Bertrand. Among people deceased in 1882, Ignacy Łukasiewicz ranks 22Before him are Sergey Nechayev, Mary Todd Lincoln, Ewelina Hańska, Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Henri Giffard. After him are Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play, Mikhail Skobelev, Karl-Maria Kertbeny, Anthony Trollope, and Thomas Hill Green.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Ignacy Łukasiewicz ranks 287 out of 1,454Before him are Moïse Kisling (1891), Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska (1834), Sepp Piontek (1940), Robert Wiene (1873), Jan Karski (1914), and Sławomir Mrożek (1930). After him are Johannes Zukertort (1842), Mieczysław Weinberg (1919), Ewald Georg von Kleist (1700), Jean Epstein (1897), Adam Czerniaków (1880), and Kazimierz Kuratowski (1896).

Among CHEMISTS In Poland

Among chemists born in Poland, Ignacy Łukasiewicz ranks 12Before him are Konrad Emil Bloch (1912), Clara Immerwahr (1870), Antoni Grabowski (1857), Casimir Funk (1884), Johann Wilhelm Ritter (1776), and Ignacy Mościcki (1867). After him are Sendivogius (1566), Fritz London (1900), Richard Abegg (1869), Kazimierz Fajans (1887), Jan Czochralski (1885), and Jeremias Benjamin Richter (1762).