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Sossina M. Haile (1966–), Inventor of Solid acid fuel cells, professor of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology. Mulugeta Bekele (1947–), Professor of Physics at Addis Ababa University. Aklilu Lemma (1934–1997), Ethiopian physician and was co-awarded the 1989 Right Livelihood Award.
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 ...
Africa has the world's oldest record of human technological achievement: the oldest surviving stone tools in the world have been found in eastern Africa, and later evidence for tool production by humans' hominin ancestors has been found across West, Central, Eastern and Southern Africa. [1] The history of science and technology in Africa since ...
Papua New Guinea: 232 25 145 Gambia: 230 92 146 Togo: 220 28 147 Sierra Leone: 211 25 148 Niger: 204 8 149 Bhutan: 200 265 150 Gabon: 189 85 151 New Caledonia: 185 676 French Polynesia: 168 600 153 Barbados: 156 542 154 Eswatini: 147 125 155 Angola: 146 5 156 Nicaragua: 141 21 157 Guinea: 138 11 158 French Guiana: 130 442 159 Haiti: 127 11 160
African Health Sciences is a quarterly peer-reviewed open access medical journal covering clinical practice and public health policy relevant to Africa and low-income countries. [1] The editor-in-chief is James K. Tumwine (Makerere University), who established the journal in 2001. [2] The journal is abstracted and indexed by Index Medicus ...
Unethical medical experimentation that has occurred for over a century may be the cause of the documented fear and mistrust of doctors and medicine in Africa. [8] For example, polio has been on the rise in Nigeria , Chad , and Burkina Faso because many people there avoid vaccinations because they believe that the vaccines are contaminated with ...
African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) is an intergovernmental non-profit organization, founded in 1988 by Calestous Juma FRS [2] in Nairobi, Kenya, promoting policy-oriented research on science and technology in development that is sustainable in terms of the economy, society, and the environment. [1]
The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine (2001) excerpt and text search excerpt and text search; Singer, Charles, and E. Ashworth Underwood. A Short History of Medicine (2nd ed. 1962) Watts, Sheldon. Disease and Medicine in World History (2003), 166pp online Archived 26 September 2017 at the Wayback Machine