Hovhannes Ghukasyan (Ignacy Łukasiewicz)

Jan Józef Ignacy Łukasiewicz (8 March 1822 – 7 January 1882) was a Polish Armenian 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. His […]