Nigerian scientist named in MIT Technology Review list
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Saturday, 10 Sep 2011

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A Nigerian, Yemi Adesokan, has been recognised by the Technology Review magazine as one of the TR35 Honoree Award recipients for 2011.


Technology Review is an independent media company owned by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.


The TR35 recognises the world’s top innovators under the age of 35, spanning energy, medicine, computing, communications, nanotechnology, and other emerging fields.


Adesokan, who is also the founder of Pathogenica Inc., was selected as a member of the TR35 class of 2011 by a panel of expert judges and the editorial staff of Technology Review, who evaluated more than 300 nominations.


He is being honored for his work in the application of next generation sequencing to clinical diagnostics. He will join other TR35 honorees in discussing their achievements at the Emtech MIT 2011 conference, taking place at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, October 18 to 19, 2011.

http://punchontheweb.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art201109102542515

GANGSTA https://www.technologyreview.com/tr35/profile.aspx?TRID=1085

Great stuff! but shouldn't this be in the education or technology section . . . just saying. . .

emofine:

Great stuff! but shouldn't this be in the education or technology section . . . just saying. . .

^^^ Hehehe . If you can't see the 'politics' in this post then you must be new to nairaland.

Kudos to Yemi though. Nigeria should be known abroad for achievements like this and not boko haram and senseless killings in the once peaceful Plateau State.

My nig (I don't know him at all personally, but my nig all the same)

TR-35 is pretty damn cool

ekt_bear:

My nig (I don't know him at all personally, but my nig all the same)

TR-35 is pretty damn cool

LOL at my Nig, major fail at attempts to sound cool.


Anyways why are Yoruba Nigerian people so smart.

SEFAGO:

LOL at my Nig, major fail at attempts to sound cool.


Anyways why are Yoruba Nigerian people so smart.

Hehe

I'm not too sure I'd place too much value on what you regard as "cool" or uncool. After all, you are a nerd, no?

This would not be the first time a Nigerian scientist/engineer was named to the TR-35. In 2002, one Adekunle Adeyeye received the honor for his work on electron-spin technology. Mr. Adeleye received his formative education in Nigeria and went on to earn his doctorate at that venerable institution called Cavendish Laboratories in Cambridge, where he was elected a Junior Research Fellow. If you are a techie and are familiar with the development of atomic physics in the early to mid 1900s, you would know the significance of Cavendish in the world of atomic physics, and the imprimatur a research fellowship at Trinity College carries.