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