Ignacy Domeyko, Polish/Lithuanian Chilean mineralogist, geologist, meteorologist
and etnographer (Niedzwiadka, Korelichi District, Belarus 31 August 1802 –
Santiago de Chile 23 January 1889) Born into a family of Polish-speaking
Lithuanian noblemen Authored over 400 reports on mineralogy,
geology, geography, physics and ethnography Authored Elementos de Mineralogia
que compreenda principalmente las especies minerales de Chili, Bolivia, Peru y
Provincias Argentinas (1844) Authored Araucania y sus habitantes (1845) that
was translated into many languages as Polish, French and German Discovered and described 27 new mineral species
such as archevite, ammiolite, bolivite, bordosite, chileite, copiapite,
coquimbite, daubreeite, embolite (1844), mottramite (1848), nantokite,
philippite, schwarzembergite (1864), taznite, tocornalite (1867), krohnkite
(1879) and tamarugite (1883) HONORS Genus Domeykoa Philippi 1860 (Apiaceae) Genus Domeykosaurus Rubilar & Vargas 2003 (Fossil Reptilia) Domeykite Haidinger 1854 (Mineral) Asteroid Domeyko 2784 |
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