Bruno Abakanowicz
Bruno AbdankAbakanowicz was a Polish mathematician, inventor and electrical engineer.
Abakanowicz was born in 1852 in Vilkmerg, Russian Empire . After graduating from the Riga Technical University, Abakanowicz passed his habilitation and began an assistantship at the Technical University of Lww. In 1881, he moved to France where he purchased a villa in Parc St. Maur on the outskirts of Paris.
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