Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
This is a list of Nigerian scientists and scholars. Nigeria is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory , Abuja . The country is located in West Africa .
Also: Nigeria: People: By occupation: Scientists Pages in this category should be moved to subcategories where applicable. This category may require frequent maintenance to avoid becoming too large.
Chinwe Nwogo Ezeani, Nigerian Chartered Librarian and the former University Librarian of Nnamdi Azkiwe Library University of Nigeria Nsukka. Philip Emeagwali, computer scientist mathematician and engineer; Odafe Atogun, Nigerian writer; John Ogbu (1939–2003), Nigerian-American anthropologist and university professor
21st-century Nigerian medical doctors (27 P) Pages in category "21st-century Nigerian scientists" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
Abasi was born on 20 June 1985, to Prof Mrs Henrietta Nkechi Ene-obong and late Prof. Ene-Obong Effiom Ene-Obong, he was raised in Nsukka, Nigeria. Both parents were/ are members of the Nigerian Academy of Science. His father served as vice chancellor at University of Cross River State, and a traditional ruler in Calabar among others. [7] [8]
Nigeria: First Black African person to win the Nobel Prize for Literature [4] 1988 Naguib Mahfouz Egypt: First Egyptian and North African to win a Nobel Prize in Literature: 1991 Nadine Gordimer South Africa: First White African woman to win a Nobel Prize 1993 Nelson Mandela: Peace: 1993 F. W. de Klerk: 1997 Claude Cohen-Tannoudji France (born ...
Andrew Jonathan Nok, NNOM (11 February 1962 – 21 November 2017) was a Nigerian Professor of Biochemistry and the public affairs secretary of the Nigerian Academy of Science. [1] [2] In 2010 he was a recipient of the Nigerian National Order of Merit Award (NNOM), in the Science category [3] and in 2013 he won the Alexander Humboldt Prize. [4]
Okojie joined the silicon carbide research group at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland in 1999. [3] He holds over 20 patents relating to high-temperature devices, including several licenses for commercial use that could reduce spacecraft weight, [4] and thereby launch cost and fuel consumption, while leaving additional space for scientific payloads.