Has There Been A Nobel Laureate In Maths or Physics From Africa? If not Why?
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There is, though, a Nobel Prize in Physics. Winners for the past 100 years can be found at the site below, as for whether any are from Africa, it's up to you. I find it unlikely, due to the fact that the majority of cutting-edge Physics work requires huge amounts of capital, something more likely to occur in more-Westernized countries.
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This is a classic example of the strategy followed by Nobel committee in awarding the prize. Theories are not given nobel prize. Experimental proof for validating or invalidating existing theories deserve a better consideration. It is for this he did not get a prize for the the theory of relativity. He did get a prize for experimentally proving phenomenon of photovoltaic emission.
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Marie Curie (Polish: Maria Skłodowska-Curie, born Maria Skłodowska, November 7, 1867 – July 4, 1934) was a Polish-French physicist and chemist. She was a pioneer in the early field of radioactivity, later becoming the first two-time Nobel laureate and the only person with Nobel Prizes in two different fields of science (physics and chemistry). She also became the first woman appointed to teach at the Sorbonne. She was born a Pole in Warsaw, and spent her early years there, but in 1891 at age 24, moved to France to study science in Paris. She obtained all her higher degrees and conducted her scientific career there, and became a naturalized French citizen. She founded the Curie Institutes in Paris and in Warsaw.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie
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In a poll of the scientists at London's Royal Society, Einstein came in second to Sir Isaac Newton. So based, on their opinion, yes there is another scientiest greater than Einstein. It's hard to know if there might have been a national bias to the vote though, given that Newton was English and Einstein was American. \n\nHere are results and comments from another poll:\nhttp://blogs.chron.com/sciguy/archives/2005/11/newton_vs_einst.html
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Not to beat a dead horse, but it's Edward Witten.  The reason why though is because he was able to unify the several flavors of string theory into, one mathematically stable, unifying theory.  It suggests some pretty "out there" ideas, and its called M Theory.\n\nAlso, I noticed that somebody suggested that it took several scientists to match the power of Einstein's intellect.  However, Einstein did very little to establish laws for the very small, which was governed by Quantum Mechanics, a theory that he very much disliked.  Yet Quantum Mechanics has accurately described the very small for years over years.  So I wouldn't call Einstein irreplaceable.
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Richard Feynman won the Nobel in Physics and he kept asking himself how he should teach physics.\nAnyway, he did it extraordinarily, so I belive the answer is: just teach with passion. \n\nCheers for Feynman.
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Yes, there are many of them; you might consider the heros of quantum mechanics: Schroedinger, Heisenberg and Planck to have simply begun careers on a normal timeframe.  Additionally, you might consider that most scientists do not become extremly famous, but that does not mean that they have not become accomplished in their field.  If you consider all non-famous, but accomplished, scientists, you're looking at a very large set of people.
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Bragg,Sir William Lawarance (1890 - 1971) English Physicist,B.Adelaide,Australia,educated in Australia and at Trinity College, Cambridge;son of W.H.Bragg.He was professor of Experimental Physics at Cambridge and Director of the Cavendish Laboratory. In 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics for their studies,with the X-Ray Spectrometer, of X-Ray spectra,X-Ray Diffraction and of Crystal structure.In 1941 he was Knighted.Among his works are 'The Structure of Silicates'(1930,2d enl.ed.1932) & Atomic Structure of Minerals(1937).With his father he wrote X-Rays and Crystal Structure(1915,5th ed.1925).
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Here is a little something that is not available on wikipedia: He was an artist and loved to draw. He was great at picking locks. He studied at MIT and Princeton. He worked on the Manhattan Project and O-ring problem of the space rockets. He was one of the best physics teachers ever. He wrote a lot of books including Feynman Lectures on Physics, which was an edited form of his lectures for freshman and sophomore students at Caltech. He always wanted to be like Paul Dirac (and he did.) He hung up when they called to let him know that he was going to get the Nobel Prize on Physics because it was in the middle of the night. He wasn't gonna accept the Nobel, but he changed his mind when he heard about the money. He died in February 1988 because of cancer.
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Michael Faraday (1791-1867) \nBritish physicist and chemist, best known for his discoveries of electromagnetic induction and of the laws of electrolysis. His biggest breakthrough in electricity was his invention of the electric motor.\nOh check out link on Peter Barlow too!
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I'm assuming you mean Einstein, but I would have to go with Newton. He invented calculus and was absolutely revolutionary in developing elementary physics. Now, obviously Einstein was brilliant too, but at least he had a long background of physicists to build on. He stood on the shoulders of giants, one of which is newton.
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Edward Bouchet, who was awarded a doctorate in physics by Yale in 1876, becoming only the sixth person to earn a PhD in the new scientific field of physics.\n\nBouchet's story is available at the link below - you'll learn, for example, that despite his PhD, Bouchet was not able to get a job appropriate to a man of his accomplishment and intelligence.
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Grace Alele-Williams, (born December 16, 1932) made history as the first Nigerian woman to be awarded a doctorate degree.\n\nBorn in Warri, Alele-Williams attended Government School, Warri, and Queen’s College, Lagos. She attended the University College (now the University of Ibadan), the University of Vermont (USA). and the University of Chicago (USA).\n\nMore info at wikipedia.
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here is a ranking of african universities \n\nhttp://www.webometrics.info/top100_continent.asp-cont=africa.htm\n\nand another ranking\nhttp://www.socialcapitalgateway.org/eng-rankingafrica.htm\n\nlooks like University of Capetown is on the top
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Roger D. Kornberg got it for chemistry. There is no Nobel prize for biology.
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Try this site:\nhttp://nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html
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nelson mandela.\npossibly Stanley 'Tookie' Williams