Ahmed Abdel-Rassoul, Egyptian radiochemist (Alexandria March 1929 -
Developed analytical schemes based on nuclear activation Raphael Ernest Grail Armattoe, Ghanaian physician, anthropologist and writer (Keta, Volta Region 12 August 1913 – Hamburg 22 October 1953) Invented many herbal medicines including the Abochi drug used to cure guinea worm disease
Physiology and Medicine Nobel Prize nominee (1948) Mahmoud Ibrahim Attia, Egyptian geologist (Cairo 10 February 1900 - ?)
A new mode of occurrence of iron-ore deposits in the Eastern Desert of Egypt. Bull. Inst. D’Egypt 31:49-68, 1949 Frank C. Batchelor, South African plant grower (1899 - 1977) Established the foundations of marketing protea cutflowers First to cultivate the blushing bride (Serruria florida) Owner of the first five protea cultivars recorded internationally (1974) such as Protea cv. Ivy and Leucospermum cv. Golden Star Developed interspecific hybrid Mars (1969) and created the first deep red pincushions Collected natural hybrids and use them for vegetative propagation for the first time HONORS Batcheloromyces Marasas, Van Wyk & Knox-Davies 1975 (Fungi) Riad Abdel Latif Bayoumi, Sudanese geneticist and biochemist (02 February 1943 – Authored over 70 research publications Performed genetic mapping of Joubert syndrome, hereditary spastic paraplegia and multiple epiphyseal dysplasia HONOURS Visiting Scientist, Danish Medical Research Council of Copenhagen University Hospital for his work on cyto-adherence of malaria parasitized erythrocytes (1993) Senior Visiting Scientist, World Health Organization for his work on use of recombinant DNA to study the genetic diversity of Plasmodium falciparum (1989) Turner Timinipre Isoun, Nigerian veterinary pathologist (Odi, Rivers State 02 September 1938 – SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY In vitro cultivation of Trypanosoma vivax isolated from cattle. Nature 251:513-4, 1974 The histopathology of experimental disease produced in mice infected with Trypanosoma vivax. Acta tropica 32(3):267-72, 1975 Pathologic and biochemical influences of a viral enteric infection in protein-calorie malnutrition in pigs. Thesis. Michigan State University (1970) Kamoya Kimeu, Kenyan fossil hunter (Machakos 1938 - Worked with the Leakey family Discovered the first skeleton of a Homo erectus (1984) Found the fossil remains of Turkanapithecus kalakoensis (1985) and Australopithecus anamensis (1994) HONORS
Kamoyapithecus Leakey, Ungar & Walker 1995 (Fossil Mammalia) René Labusquiere, French physician in Africa (Saint Laurent des Combes, Gironde 26 September 1919 – Paris 22 September 1977) He was grandson of surgeon Jean Louis Faure and a relative of surgeon Paul Reclus Developed techniques for diagnostics and treatment adapted to mass actions
Authored Santé Rurale et Médecine Preventive en Afrique Noire (1970) Sulaiman Botsende Lagundoye, Nigerian radiologist (Owo 13 October 1935 - Defined the radiological features of the abnormal hemoglobin disease Radiological features of sickle-cell anaemia and related heamoglobinopathies. Afr. J. Med. Sciences 1:315, 1970 With A.M. Agunloye & A.O. Adeyinka. Assessment of diaphragmatic levels on plain chest radiograph – a new approach. West Afr. J. Med. 25(4):258-61, 2006 Louis Gottlieb Meyer, German-born South African missionary and collector (near Kleine Marpe, Dettmold 16 October 1867 – Stellenbosch September 1958) Collected new species of plants and insects Honored in genus Meyerophytum Schwantes 1927 (Aizoaceae) His son, Helmut Ernst Meyer, horticulturalist (Komaggas, Namakwa District, Northern Cape Province 08 November 1908 – 1995) First to successfully cultivate and grow Disa uniflora orchid species Produced numerous selections and hybrids
Davidson Sylvester Hector Willoughby Nicol, Sierra Leonean diplomat, writer and physician (Freetown 14 September 1924 – Cambridge, United Kingdom 20 September 1994) First to analyse the break down of insulin in the human body With L.F. Smith. Amino-acid sequence of human insulin. Nature 187:483-5, 1960 The biological activity of pure peptides obtained by enzymatic hydrolysis of insulin. Biochem. J. 7:395-401, 1960 The biological activity of insulin derivatives. Biochem. Biophys. Acta 34:257-8, 1959
First African to be named fellow at either Cambridge or Oxford Universities (1957) |
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