African Scientists

Papus of Alexandria
Culture:Egyptian
Area of Study:Mathematics
Century:3rd
Contribution:
His mathematical collections summarizes geometric knowledge and
includes ingenious proofs ascribed to Pappus himself; the book is
the best account we have of various missing books of earlier
Hellenistic mathematicians such as Euclid and Apollonius.

Callincus
Culture: Greek (born in Egypt)
Area of Study:technology
Century:7
Contribution:
Invents a substance that will burn in water that will later be used as a weapon
against wooden ships; it is known as Greek Fire.

Frank T Robb
Culture: South African
Area of Study: MicroBiology
Century: 20 and 21
Contribution:
Frank T Robb plans to capture as many "extremophile" microbes as he can from Siberia's volcanic geysers and sulphur pits. He Then wants to launch them into space in specially designed rockets. Once in space, he intends testing them to destruction to gauge their resistance to hard radiation and heat. The bugs that survive may hold the secret to colonising other worlds and the history of how life started on Earth

Valrie Mizrahi
Culture: South African
Area of Study: Molecular Biology
Century: 20 and 21
Contribution:
Mizrahi is a molecular biologist at the University of the Witwatersrand. She is one of 45 international scientists awarded a grant by the US-based Howard Hughes Medical Institute to develop new ways of overcoming malaria, tuberculosis and other parasitic and infectious diseases. She is a leading researcher on tuberculosis - one of the most threatening diseases in South Africa and the world. Mizrahi is the only scientist from Africa who was awarded this grant which nets each scientist between 225,000 US dollars and 450,000 dollars over five years.

Philip Emeagwali
Culture: Nigerian
Area of Study: Computer Science
Contribution:
Considered by some to be a "genius" Emeagwali has developed the fastest computer in the world, and writing a formula that would allow a computer to make 3.1 billion operations per second!!