The piece, entitled “Oil revolution started with the Poles”, was written by Andrzej Krajewski, a Polish historian, columnist and promoter of science.
The article profiles several Poles, starting with Ignacy Łukasiewicz and Jan Zeh, who invented the kerosene lamp.
“Another Pole, Witold Zglenicki, found vast deposits of crude oil in the Caspian Sea area. Ignacy Mościcki was not only the President of Poland before WWII, but also a chemist with a specialty in nitrogen fertilizers,” Krajewski writes, stressing that “the achievements of these Poles had a great impact on our civilisation, spurring the development of the oil industry.”
The article is simultaneously being published in the Polish monthly Wszystko Co Najważniejsze as part of a project carried out with the Institute of National Remembrance and Poland’s central bank.
In the current stage of the project, which aims at bringing Poland and its affairs closer to the world, articles about the country’s innovation drive and ideas for its post-pandemic recovery are to be published in over 50 media outlets across the world, including in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Russia.
(mk/pk)