Nigerian inventors

The list Nigerian inventors includes Ayodele Awojobi, Soni Oyekan, Mohammed Bah Abba, Ilesanmi Adesida and Victor Uwaifo. The list consists of 29 members and 1 sublist.

20th-century Nigerian inventors
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Ayodele Awojobi

Nigerian academic

Overview: Ayodele Oluwatuminu Awojobi (12 March 1937 – 23 September 1984), also known by the nicknames "Dead Easy", "The Akoka Giant", and "Macbeth", was a Nigerian academic, author, inventor, social crusader and ...

Date of birth: 12 March 1937

Date of death: 23 September 1984

Age: 47 (age at death)

Nationality: Nigerian

Occupation: Activist

Gender: Male

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Scientists from Lagos 6T

Educators from Lagos 17T

20th-century Nigerian educators 31T
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Soni Oyekan

American chemical engineer

Overview: Soni Olufemi Olubunmi Oyekan is a Nigerian-American chemical engineer, inventor, entrepreneur, author, mentor and educator. Oyekan is the President and CEO of Prafis Energy Solutions, an oil refining and ...

Date of birth: 1 June 1946

Age: 78

Nationality: Nigerian

Occupation: Chemist

Gender: Male

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Olivet Baptist High School alumni 7T

People from Richmond, Texas 30T

Yoruba engineers 25T
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Mohammed Bah Abba

Overview: Mohammed Bah Abba (1964–2010) was a teacher from northern Nigeria who developed the pot-in-pot refrigerator in the 1990s. This refrigerator is extremely simple and does not require power, making ...

Date of birth: 1964

Date of death: 2010

Age: 45 (age at death)

Nationality: Nigerian

Occupation: Inventor

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Appropriate technology advocates 20T

2010 deaths 8,925T

Nigerian people 290T
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Gordian Ezekwe

Nigerian Mechanical Engineer (born 1929)

Overview: Gordian Obumneme Ezekwe (born May 10, 1929) was a Nigerian inventor, mechanical engineer and former federal Minister of Science and Technology under Ibrahim Babangida from 1989 to 1991. As the head of ...

Date of birth: 10 May 1929

Date of death: 25 June 1997

Age: 68 (age at death)

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Nigerian mechanical engineers 7T

University of Nigeria 8T

People from Anambra State 150T
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David Oluwatobiloba Adeyemi

Date of birth: 14 June 1997

Age: 27

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Omowunmi Sadik

Nigerian professor, chemist, and inventor

Overview: Omowunmi "Wunmi" A. Sadik (born 19 June 1964) is a Nigerian professor, chemist, and inventor working at Binghamton University. She has developed microelectrode biosensors for detection of drugs and ex ...

Date of birth: 19 June 1964

Age: 60

Nationality: Nigerian

Occupation: Chemist

Gender: Female

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Yoruba women scientists 10T

21st-century American women scientists 388T

Fellows of the African Academy of Sciences 24T
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John Dabiri

Professor of Aeronautics and Bioengineering at the California Institute of Technology

Overview: John Oluseun Dabiri is a Nigerian-American aeronautics engineer and the Centennial Chair Professor at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), with appointments in the Graduate Aerospace Labo ...

Date of birth: 1980

Age: 44

Nationality: American

Occupation: Biologist

Gender: Male

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Princeton University School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni 80T

21st-century American inventors 222T

21st-century American engineers 416T
8.

Ilesanmi Adesida

Electrical engineer

Overview: Ilesanmi Adesida (born 1949, Ifon, Ondo State, Nigeria) is a Nigerian American physicist of Yoruba descent. He has been the provost at Nazarbayev University in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, from September 2016 ...

Date of birth: 1949

Age: 75

Nationality: Nigerian

Occupation: Scientist

Gender: Male

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Naturalized citizens of the United States 511T

21st-century American inventors 222T

20th-century American inventors 1,114T
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Victor Uwaifo

Nigerian musician

Overview: Prof. Sir Victor Uwaifo (MON) (1 March 1941 – 28 August 2021) was a Nigerian musician, writer, sculptor, and musical instrument inventor, University lecturer, music legend, and the first Honorable Com ...

Date of birth: 1941

Date of death: 28 August 2021

Age: 80 (age at death)

Nationality: Nigerian

Occupation: Inventor

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Members of the Order of the Niger 15T

University of Benin (Nigeria) faculty 13T

Yaba College of Technology alumni 22T
10.

Ken Goldberg

American artist

Overview: Kenneth Yigael Goldberg (born 1961) is an American artist, writer, inventor, and researcher in the field of robotics and automation. He is professor and chair of the industrial engineering and operations ...

Date of birth: 1961

Age: 63

Nationality: American

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Male

Partner: Tiffany Shlain (Married)

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21st-century American inventors 222T

University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni 74T

Writers from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 21T
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Olagoke Olabisi

Nigerian chemical engineer

Overview: Olagoke Olabisi (AKA Lagoke Labisi) is an author, editor, educator, mentor, inventor, and entrepreneur. A Nigerian–American chemical engineer, Olagoke is the Chief Consultant and CEO of Infra-Tech con ...

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Adebayo Alonge

Nigerian social entrepreneur

Overview: Adebayo Alonge is a Nigerian pharmacist, inventor, deep tech entrepreneur, and market development professional. He emerged as the winner of the 2019 Hello Tomorrow Global deeptech Challenge otherwise known ...

Nationality: Nigerian

Occupation: Inventor

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Nigerian computer scientists 10T

Pan-Atlantic University alumni 23T

Nigerian pharmacists 10T
13.

Deji Akinwande

Nigerian-American professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Overview: Deji Akinwande is a Nigerian-American professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering with courtesy affiliation with Materials Science at the University of Texas at Austin. He was awarded the Presidential ...

Nationality: Nigerian

Occupation: Inventor

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Federal Government College Idoani alumni 5T

21st-century American inventors 236T

Yoruba engineers 29T
14.

Kunle Olukotun

British-born Nigerian computer scientist

Overview: Oyekunle Ayinde "Kunle" Olukotun is a British-born Nigerian computer scientist who is the Cadence Design Systems Professor of the Stanford School of Engineering, Professor of Electrical Engineering and ...

Nationality: Nigerian

Occupation: Inventor

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University of Michigan College of Engineering alumni 275T

21st-century American inventors 236T

21st-century American engineers 438T
15.

Akintunde Akinwande

Nigerian American engineering professor

Overview: Akintunde Ibitayo Akinwande is a Nigerian American engineering professor at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Nationality: American

Occupation: Physicist

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Ndubuisi Ekekwe

Nigerian academic (born 1975)

Overview: Ndubuisi Ekekwe (born July 1975) is a Nigerian professor, inventor, engineer, author, and entrepreneur. He is the founder of First Atlantic Semiconductors & Microelectronics – West Africa's leading embedded ...

Date of birth: July 1975

Age: 49

Nationality: Nigerian

Occupation: Inventor

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Jacob Odulate

Nigerian inventor

Overview: Chief Jacob Sogboyega Odulate (1884–1962), aka Blessed Jacob was a Nigerian pharmacist, inventor, essayist, entrepreneur and inventor of Alabukun, a patent medicine.

Date of birth: 1884

Date of death: 1962

Age: 77 (age at death)

Nationality: Nigerian

Occupation: Inventor

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20th-century inventors 654T

People from Ikorodu 4T

Nigerian health care businesspeople 2T
18.

Enitan Bababunmi

Nigerian academic

Overview: Enitan Abisogun Bababunmi (born September 8, 1940 – May 29, 2017) was a Nigerian academic and a Professor of Biochemistry who served as the third Vice-Chancellor of Lagos State University between ...

Date of birth: 8 September 1940

Date of death: 29 May 2017

Age: 76 (age at death)

Nationality: Nigerian

Occupation: Inventor

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Babatunde Ogunnaike

American chemist

Overview: Babatunde Ayodeji Ogunnaike (born March 26, 1956) is an American chemical engineer of Nigerian descent and the William L. Friend Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University Of ...

Date of birth: 26 March 1956

Age: 69

Nationality: American

Occupation: Inventor

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Fellows of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers 21T

University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Engineering alumni 109T

21st-century American engineers 416T
20.

Seyi Oyesola

Nigerian doctor

Overview: Seyi Oyesola is a Nigerian doctor, who co-invented "hospital in a box".

Nationality: Nigerian

Occupation: Scientist

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Nigerian anesthesiologists 3T

Yoruba physicians 65T

Nigerian medical doctors 84T