Ignacy Domeyko
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Ignacy Domeyko (also spelled Domejko; July 31, 1802 - January 23, 1889, Santiago de Chile) was a Polish geologist and mineralogist.
Domeyko was born in Niedźwiadka manor (Belarusian: Miadźviedka), Navahradak district, Minsk guberniya, Imperial Russia, now in Belarus. For this reason, he is considered a person of national note in Belarus.
Domeyko studied at Vilnius University under Jędrzej Śniadecki, and at the Ecole des Mines in Paris. He was a close friend of the Romantic poet Adam Mickiewicz. After participating in the November Uprising, in 1831 he chose to emigrate to France rather than face Russian reprisals. In 1838 he left for Chile and lived there until May 22, 1884, when he returned for an extended visit to Europe. He stayed four years in Poland, receiving an honorary doctorate at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and touring Europe, then returned to Chile.
He was a professor at a mining college in Coquimbo, and later (1867-1883) president of the University of Santiago de Chile.
He greatly advanced studies in mineralogy and mining techniques, researched several new minerals, and was also a meteorologist and ethnographer.
Several entities have been named in his honor, including the mineral Domeykit, the shellfish Nautilus domeykus, the ammonite Amonites domeykanus, the asteroid 2784 Domeyko, the Andean mountain range Cordillera Domeyko, and the Chilean city of Domeyko.
On the 200th Anniversary of Domeyko’s birth, UNESCO declared the year 2002 "Ignacy Domeyko Year." Several commemorative events were held in Chile under the auspices of Polish President Aleksander Kwaśniewski and Chilean President Ricardo Lagos.
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- Ignacy Domeyko – Spiritual Bridge between Poland and Chile (http://www.uj.edu.pl/IRO/NEWSLET/IRO13/RYN-P.html)
- An article about Domeyko (http://www.dziennik.com/www/dziennik/kult/archiwum/07-12-02/pp-07-26-01.html)be:Ігнат Дамейка