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Invention of a connector system, by Glen McFarlane. [71] [72] [73] Invention of the Compact Design H2 Energy Storage and Generation system. [74] Patented magnetic gearbox system. [75] Contributed to the development of a new type of polyhexahydrotriazine (PHT). [76] [77] Published the first comprehensive human microbiome study, by Karen Nelson ...
For his contribution, Gavin Jones became the first Jamaican named among Foreign Policy magazine's FP Top 100 Global Thinkers. [78] [79] The first comprehensive human microbiome study, by Karen Nelson and team. [80] [81] Identified the link between adipose tissue glucose transporter and insulin resistance, by Evan Dale Abel and Barbara Kahn. [82]
Thomas Phillip Lecky, known as T.P. Lecky (1904-1994), was a Jamaican scientist who developed several new breeds of cattle.Lecky is known as one of Jamaica's earliest environmentalists, and a strong advocate for conservation of hillsides. [1]
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The economic structure shifted from a dependence on agriculture that in 1950 accounted for 30.8 percent of GDP to an agricultural contribution of 12.9 percent in 1960 and 6.7 percent in 1970. During the same period, the contribution to the GDP of mining increased from less than 1 percent in 1950 to 9.3 percent in 1960 and 12.6 percent in 1970. [70]
Francis Williams (c. 1690 – c. 1770) was a Jamaican polymath, scholar, astronomer and poet who was one of the most notable free black people in Jamaica.Born in Kingston, Jamaica, into a slaveholding family, Williams subsequently travelled to England where he officially became a British subject.
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Around 650 AD, Jamaica was settled by the people of the Ostionoid culture (ancestors of the Taíno), who likely came from South America. [1] Alligator Pond in Manchester Parish and Little River in St. Ann Parish are among the earliest known sites of this Ostionoid culture, also known as the Redware culture. [1]