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The Great Rift Valley of Africa provides critical evidence for the evolution of early hominins.The earliest tools in the world can be found there as well: An unidentified hominin, possibly Australopithecus afarensis or Kenyanthropus platyops, created stone tools dating to 3.3 million years ago at Lomekwi in the Turkana Basin, eastern Africa.
Sydney Brenner (1927–2019), South African biologist, who won the 2002 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine. Allan McLeod Cormack (1924–1998), South African-born American physicist, who won the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Mulalo Doyoyo (born 1970), South African professor, engineer and inventor.
The following is a list and timeline of innovations as well as inventions and discoveries that involved South African people or South Africa including predecessor states in the history of the formation of South Africa. This list covers innovation and invention in the mechanical, electronic, and industrial fields, as well as medicine, military ...
Cameroonian inventions (2 P) Pages in category "History of science and technology in Africa" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
Kitaw was born in Bonga, Keffa province, Ethiopia on 25 February 1948 [1] [3] to his father Ejigu Haile and mother Askale Belayneh. [citation needed] After completing his primary and secondary education in Bonga, Waka and Jimma, Kitaw attended his higher education at the Polytechnic College of Ethiopia, in Bahir Dar in the department of Mechanical Engineering.
1959 – Trevor Wadley invented the Tellurometer, the first successful microwave distance measurement device. 1962 – SANAE I, the first South African Antarctic base is built. [19] [20] 1963 – The Dolos was developed in East London; 1965, 18 March – SAFARI-1, the first nuclear reactor on the African continent, goes critical
Science and technology in Africa by dependent territory ... African inventions (7 C, 2 P) M. Military equipment of Africa (1 C) N. Natural history of Africa (7 C, 11 ...
Pages in category "South African inventors" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Percy Amoils; C.