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Errol York St Aubyn Morrison (born 21 September 1945) is a Jamaican scientist who has done extensive work in diabetes and is president of the University of Technology, Jamaica. [ 1 ] He entered the University College of the West Indies where he acquired an interest in Biochemistry.
Courtenay Felix Bartholomew (1931 – 7 May 2021) was a Trinidad and Tobago physician, scientist, and author. [1] [2] He was the founder and director of the Medical Research Foundation of Trinidad and Tobago. [1] He was active in HIV/AIDS research, and was notable for diagnosing the first case of AIDS in the English-speaking Caribbean.
In 2021, two Jamaican scientists won the prestigious International Network for Government Science Advice (INGSA) 2020 awards, making Jamaica the first country to take home prizes in the organisation's two award categories in any one year. [30] Jamaica has produced many internationally awarded scientists. Examples include:
Activities vary widely from transcribing old ship logbooks to digitize the data as part of the Old Weather project to observing and counting birds at home or in the field for eBird. [1] [2] Participation can be as simple as playing a computer game for a project called Eyewire that may help scientists learn more about retinal neurons. [3]
Jamaican inventions and discoveries are items, processes, ideas, techniques or discoveries which owe their existence either partially or entirely to a person born in Jamaica, or to a citizen of Jamaica or to a person born abroad of Jamaican heritage.
In 2007 at a conference of the Caribbean poison information network (CARPIN), Lowe spoke of the commercial benefits possible from research into medicinal cannabis. [28] In 2013 Lowe established Medicanja; a company to produce and commercialize products based on cannabis. [29] [30] [31] He is the firm's Executive Chairman and chief scientist.
For marine scientists, it was deja vu: Another die-off swept through the region in the 1980s and slashed sea urchin populations by around 98%. Mystery solved: Scientists ID Caribbean sea urchin killer
Also: Trinidad and Tobago: People: By occupation: Scientists. Subcategories. This category has the following 13 subcategories, out of 13 total. +