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Buhari Hails Nigerian Prof For Winning AU’s Scientific Excellence Award

John Ogunsemore Mar 24, 2021 0

President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated Professor of Physics, Ibiyinka Fuwape, on winning the 2020 edition of the African Union Kwame Nkrumah Regional Award for Scientific Excellence. Buhari congratulated the female university don…

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Russian Nobel Prize winner for physics Alferov dies age 88

Abigael Joshua Mar 2, 2019 0

Zhores Alferov, the 2000 Nobel prize winner in physics and a member of Russia’s parliament, has died aged 88 in St Petersburg, the Russian Communist party said on Saturday. Alferov shared the nearly 1 million dollar award, which…

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Three British Scientists win Nobel Prize in Physics

Onome Agesse Oct 5, 2016 0

Three British scientists, David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz, have won the Nobel prize in physics for their work on exotic states of matter that may pave the way for quantum computers and other revolutionary technologies.…