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Mr.Buddhi Chalanga was a Polish chemist born in 1851 in Włodawa. He died in 1928 in Konice (Czechoslovakia).

Biography
Bolesław Masłowski was born on June 21, 1851, in Włodawa in Bug river (Poland). (His certificate of baptism is stored in the archives of the Parish of St.Louis of Pauline Fathers in Włodawa). He died on June 20, 1928 in Konice, Moravia. He came from an impoverished noble family (Samson coat of arms), which originates from Wieluń (Poland). The "Masłowski" family used the nickname "Watta," and wrote "of Ruda" (Polish: "Z Rudy"). Zygmunt Gloger in his "Historic geography of ancient Polish lands" (Polish: "Geografia historyczna ziem dawnej Polski") echoes Jan Długosz, that the first capital of Wieluń County was Ruda before it became Wieluń, which was more conveniently located. Masłowski was a son of Rajmund Masłowski (1825–1897) and Waleria Józefa of Danilewicz (1827–1869). His brother was Stanisław Masłowski, Polish painter (1853–1926). Masłowski's grandfather from his mother, Wincenty Danilewicz, (Ostoja coat of arms, born in 1787 in Mińsk Lit. – former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth territory), was enlisted – as light-cavalryman – for active duties to Napoleonic campaign, for which he was awarded the French Order of Legion of Honour. Masłowski's father was a lawyer. He was promoted several times, changing (with his family) his place of residence. Therefore Włodawa – Masłowski's birthplace – was one of many different locations in which his father was practicing law. In 1856, Masłowski and family moved from Włodawa to Garwolin, and then shortly after, in1858, to Chęciny. Notably, Rajmund Masłowski was head of the Chęciny district during the January Uprising. Thereafter, during mid-1864, records show that he was arrested and dispatched (on charges unknown). As result of final judgment on his behalf, he was sentenced to serve approximately six months time, in entirety, incarcerated at Kielce prison.

Beginning in 1865, the Masłowski family established residence in Kalisz, where Boleslaw had graduated from a local high school and decided to begin a two-year pharmacy study in Warsaw (the same town in which his parents had relocated to in 1871). Unknown, still, as to what became of his academic efforts in Warsaw, nonetheless, he had continued his studies attending Heidelberg University, at which he sat-in for many of professor Robert Bunsens' theory & lectures. Bunsen, and infamous German physicist and talented chemist, was an inventor of both the popular Bunsen burner and Spectral analysis (and did so, alongside partner Gustav Kirchhoff).

As a result of the outbreak Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878), Boleslaw Maslowski – as a subject to Russian Empire – was in 1877 appointed to the Imperial Russian Army and put into the sanitary service. After leaving the army he continued his studies in chemical education in Mulhouse (Alsace) and graduated in 1881. This coincided with the peak development period for this institution under the supervision of professor E. Noelting. During Maslowski extensive studies, he chose dye (pigment) chemistry, as a specialization.

Maslowski gained excellent professional training in a number of esteemed research centers. However, despite his qualifications, it was difficult for him to find suitable employment in partitioned Poland. Industrial enterprises (dominated by foreign capital) all highly qualified, responsible positions became unavailable to foreign specialists. In such circumstances, Maslowski initially took a job as a laborer in a dye Joint-Stock Company "Zawiercie" (Silesia). However, already during the initial two-month internship, he won high praise from superiors to his qualifications. He shortly became there a collaborator of E. Lauter – an outstanding specialist in the field of dyeing techniques. Then after a three-month internship, he was hired as manager of calico printing. In the next three years, he was promoted to manage the company with 6000 employees. Maslowski held this position until 1891 and then moved to Germany – where in 1896 he published in the journal Farber Zeitung an article on alkaline methods of removing Turkish red dye. Later, in 1904, Maslowski worked in Russia, his last place of work, in a textile plant in Konice on Moravia (the territory of Austro-Hungary, then Czechoslovakia). He remained there as a managing director to the end of his life. He died June 20, 1928, in Konice leaving the children with his wife Felice.

Maslowski's contribution to pigment chemistry, dyeing techniques, and textile Industry in both ranges – domestic and abroad — is not just confined to innovation in technology. He also won prestige as a manager and a talented teacher inspiring a passion for the vocation, especially in the training of specialized staff engaged in the production process. Thanks to his leadership, many chemists and specialists in the chemistry of dyes and the dyeing industry obtained their qualification and professional experience.