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Ignacy Domeyko

IgnacyDomeyko or Domejko,pseudonym: Żegota (Spanish: Ignacio Domeyko) (July 31, 1802 – January 23, 1889, Santiago de Chile) was a Belarusian geologist, mineralogist and educator.

Domeyko was born at a manor house located within the then Russian partition of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, at Bear Cub Manor (Belarusian: Мядзьведка) near Nesvizh, Minsk Governorate,
Imperial Russia (now Karelichy district, Belarus). The Domeyko family held the Polish coat of arms Dangiel. His father, Hipolit Domeyko, who was president of the local land court, died when Ignacy was seven years old; his uncles then served as his guardians.

Domeyko enrolled at Vilnius University, then known as the Imperial University of Vilna, in 1816 as a student of mathematics and physics.
He studied under Jędrzej Śniadecki. Involved with the Philomaths,
a secret student organisation dedicated to Polish culture and the restoration of Poland's independence, he was a close friend of Adam Mickiewicz. In 1823–24, during the investigation and trials of the Philomaths, Domeyko and Mickiewicz spent months incarcerated at Vilnius' Uniate Basilian monastery.

After a youth passed in partitioned Poland, Domeyko participated in the November 1830 Uprising against the Russian Empire. Upon its suppression, he was forced into exile and spent part of his life in France (where he had gone with fellow Philomath, Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz). Journeying through Germany, he arrived in France, where he would earn an engineering degree at Paris School of Mining. He also studied at the Sorbonne and maintained his political engagements with Belarusians, Poles, and Lithuanians.

In 1838 Domeyko left for Chile. There he made substantial contributions to mineralogy and the technology of mining, studied several previously unknown minerals, advocated for the civil rights of the native tribal peoples, and was a meteorologist and ethnographer. He is also credited with
introducing the metric system to Latin America. He served as a professor at a mining college in Coquimbo (La Serena) and after 1847 at the University of Chile in Santiago, of which he was a rector for 16 years (1867–83).
A bronze bust of Domeyko stands in the Casa Central of Santiago's University of Chile. Domeyko gained Chilean citizenship in 1849, but declared at the time that "I may now never change my citizenship, but God grants me hope that wherever I may be – whether in the Cordilleras or in Paneriai (the Vilnius suburb) – I shall die a Lithuanian. "The term "Lithuanian" at that time, however, designated any inhabitant, whatever his ethnicity, of the territories of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

In 1884 Domeyko returned for an extended visit to Europe and remained there until 1889, visiting his birthplace and other places in the former Commonwealth, as well as Paris and Jerusalem. In 1887 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Jagiellonian University, in Krakow. In 1889, soon after returning to Santiago, Chile, Domeyko died.

Domeyko is seen as having had close ties to several countries and thus in 2002, when UNESCO organized a series of commemorations of the 200th anniversary of his birth, he was referred to as "a citizen of the world".

Plaque commemorating the "distinguished son of the Polish nation and eminent citizen of Chile" In his youth he was a subject of the Russian Empire. Domeyko, however, had been brought up in the culture of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, a multicultural state whose educated and dominant classes had spoken Polish as a lingua franca and that, shortly before Domeyko's birth, had been dismembered in the partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. For this reason, and because Domeyko subsequently spent most of his life in Chile, he is considered
a person of national importance to Poles, Belarusians, Lithuanians and Chileans.

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Kazimir Semenovich

Kazimir Semenovich (1600–1651) – Belarusian compatriot, military engineer and theorist of artillery. He is considered as one of the founders of world rocket ballistics and astronautics.

There is no exact information on Semenovich’s date of birth.
Presumably, he was born in 1600, but it’s known that he came from an impoverished gentry family of the Semenoviches who owned some land in Vitebsk region. Semenovich considered himself as Lithuanus. He had good knowledge of arithmetics, geometry, mechanics, hydraulics,
pneumatics, architecture, physics and chemistry as well as fine arts,
sculpture, engraving etc. He is believed to have aqcuired such encyclopedic knowledge (right in the spirit of the Renaissance) in Vilnia University.

Kazimir Semenovich was a participant of the war between Russian state and Poland (1632–34) and the siege of the Moscow garrison in the town of White (March-May 1634), a participant of the battle of Rzecz Pospolita forces against the Tatars at the Akhmatovo (30.01.1644), where he was a witness of the Tatar fireworks. In 1645 he went to the Netherlands and in the same year took part in the siege of different cities by the troops of Frederick Henry of Oranski. In 1648 he took part in the war with the Cossacks.

Although his parents wanted him to become a politician, Semenovich strongly believed that it’s artillery which combines both science and art as well as all the wisdom of the world. He studied artillery in Holland, took part in the war between Holland and Spain, on returning home he took posts of engineer of the Crown artillery and then leutenant-general. After he retired he went back to Holland to publish his treatise “The Great Art of Artillery”. Kazimir Semenovich’s work was first published in Latin language in 1650. One year later the second edition in French language appeared. The book consisted of five parts and included
a plenty of engravings based on the author’s sketches. The book described the multi-staged rocket, the delta wing and the rocket system of volley fire. Original Belarussian words such as “berkavets” and “baryla” (old units of measurement) become international scientific terms. This study attracted the attention of experts in different countries and was translated into numerous European languages. During centuries this work had been not only one of the major scientific works in Europe, but also one of the most demanded textbooks on artillery.

Soon after the book was published he died. The causes of death are unknown.

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Barys Kit

Barys Kit (was born April 6, 1910) is a famous Belarusian and
American rocket scientist.

Kit was born on April 6, 1910 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire to the family of an employee at the Post and Telegraph Department, a Belarusian in origin. In 1918 Kit’s family moved to their native village of Aharodniki (now merged with the town of Karelichy, Hrodna Region).

After graduation from Navahrudak Belarusian Lyceum in 1928 Kit entered the physics and mathematics faculty of Vilnius University. After graduation in 1933 he worked as a teacher at Vilnius Belarusian Lyceum. In 1939 he was appointed its Principal. After the Vilnius Region had been annexed to Lithuania in 1939, Kit returned to his native region.
He was the Principal of Navahrudak Belarusian High School there and later a superintendent of a large school system district. Hundreds of elementary schools and several dozen high schools were opened in the region within a year due to Kit's direct participation.

During the Nazi Occupation of Belarus (1941–1944) Kit worked as
a teacher in the village of Lebedzeva near Maladzyechna and later as
a director of the Pastavy Teachers College. He was suspected of
having partisan connections and was arrested by the German SD punitive bodies. He spent a month in prison and was saved from execution by his former pupils. In 1944 Kit and his family with the retreating German army moved to Germany, first to Offenbach-Lindau in Bavaria, then to Munich. In 1948 Kit emigrated to the United States. In 1950 he settled in Los Angeles and worked there as a chemist in various companies.

In the mid-1950s Kit began his scientific activities in the field of astronautics. For 25 years he worked in the American space research program. As a mathematician and systems analyst, he took part in projects aimed at the development of intercontinental missile systems. Kit took part in all the American space research projects, including mathematical support of the mission to the Moon.

In 1972 Kit moved to Frankfurt-am-Main in Germany, where he lives as of 2013. In 1982 Kit earned a Ph.D. in mathematics and science
history from the University of Regensberg.

Kit is the author of the first manual on rocket propellant "Rocket
Propellant Handbook", published by McMillan in 1960. The book received many positive reviews and is referenced in rocket science publications even today.

Kit is a long-standing member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, an honorary member of the Hermann Oberth German Astronautics Society Board of Directors, a member of the International Astronautics Academy in Paris, Vice-President of the Eurasian
International Astronautics Academy, Professor Emeritus of Maryland University, Honorary Doctorate of Science of Hrodna State University, and Navahrudak's honorable resident.

A "time capsule" with Kit's name was immured in the wall of Capitol in Washington, D.C. Kit has always remained a conscious Belarusian: “Everything I did in my life – I did for my homeland and its fame”.

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