有哪些優秀的黑人科學家？

01-16

當代非洲科學家多如繁星

介紹一位奈及利亞籍女科學家佛蘭西斯科.娜卡,奧科科

原文地址:Day 15: Prof. Francisca Nneka Okeke

In honour of Black History Month we will be recognising notable contributions to the STEMs from people of African origin. Today we recognise Prof. Francisca Nneka Okeke.

Born in Nigeria, Prof. Okeke is a Professor of Physics most notable for her work into geomagnetism and the equatorial electrojet phenomena. Despite the challenges associated with been a woman in the field of Physics she received great encouragement and mentor-ship from her father who was a mathematics graduate from the University of Nigeria and an educationalist. Following her appointment to the University, Prof. Okeke rose through the ranks to become the first female Physics Professor and first female Dean in the faculty of Physical Sciences at the University of Nigeria. During her tenure she advocated for further inclusion of women in the department which led to the employment of three new female faculty members and her subsequent succession by a female.

Prof. Okeke has her research focussed on the ionosphere and the equatorial electrojet phenomenon, a river of electrical current which can cause variations in the earth』s magnetic field. She has authored multiple textbooks, published in international journals and her work could lead to better understanding of climate change as well as help pin point tsunamis and earthquakes. Her work has also received praise for discovering an alternative means of determining the upper mantle conductivity in West Africa.

Prof. Okeke is a member of the Africa Astronomical Society, was a visiting research fellow to University of Natal and won an international fellowship award to the University of Tokyo. Most noteworthy is her receipt of the L』Oreal-UNESCO For Women in Science Award (2013). She contributes to the development of physics at both secondary and tertiary levels in Nigeria and continues to supervise MSc and PhD students at her institution.

kunle olukotun 多核處理器開創者

生物學家Samuel Achilefu，來自奈及利亞。今年三月在Nature Nanotechnology雜誌上發表了對癌症的光療法的研究。

詳情可以去到這個網址

http://orl.wustl.edu/

威廉.阿瑟.劉易斯。第十一屆諾貝爾獎經濟學獎獲得者，發現並提出了「劉易斯拐點」。

兩個朋友舉的例子都是奈及利亞科學家，我見過的幾個黑人理工科博士生也都是奈及利亞的，這是不是一種巧合？

拯救人類的科學家

NASA現任局長大人。NASA Glenn實驗室主管Whitlow Jr. 此外Glenn實驗室還有好幾位黑人科學家。

中國課題組不是也蠻喜歡招南亞矮黑人的么。完了我來介紹一個吧，其實我原來對黑人沒好感的，但確實總被黑人姑娘搭訕啊。

GTU的Stefan France，他們組沒有中國人啊。。。。。。不過這老師水平一般，之所以注意到是因為今年發了篇IECresearch還是自己比較想做的課題方向。