Aklilu Lemma

Aklilu Lemma an haifeshi a 18 Satumba na shekarar 1935 - ya mutu a 5 Afrilu, na shekarar 1997, ma nazarcin cututtuka da rauni ne wanda ake masu lakani da turanci (Pathology).  A cikin 1989, an ba shi lambar yabo ta Right Livelihood Award "saboda ganowa da yin kamfen ba tare da ɓata lokaci ba don rigakafi mai araha a kan bilharzia." 

Ilimi
Lemma ya yi karatu a Kwalejin Jami'ar Addis Ababa da Jami'ar Johns Hopkins da ke Amurka  inda ya samu digirin digirgir na D.Sc. a shekarar 1964. Kundin karatunsa ya kasance akan leishmaniasis wanda ke haifar da yashi.

Sana`a
Bayan kammala karatun digirinsa, Lemma ya koma ƙasarsa ta haihuwa, Habasha, inda ya sami matsayi a jami'ar Haile Selassie I na lokacin. Ya kafa Cibiyar Nazarin Halittu, wanda a yanzu ake kira Aklilu Lemma Institute of Pathobiology,  kuma ya koyar a can har zuwa 1976, lokacin da ya bar ta don aiki a Majalisar Dinkin Duniya . Ya yi hidima ga Majalisar Dinkin Duniya a fannoni da dama a matsayin masanin kimiya, ya zama Mataimakin Darakta na Cibiyar Raya Yara ta Duniya ta UNICEF, wadda a yanzu aka fi sani da Cibiyar Bincike ta Innocenti ta UNICEF  kuma a karshe ya samu matsayi a makarantarsa, Jami'ar Johns Hopkins .

Ya fara binciken kimiyya mafi mahimmanci a farkon aikinsa, a cikin 1964, lokacin da ya gano maganin dabi'a ga schistosomiasis,  wanda aka fi sani da cutar zazzabin katantanwa ko bilharzia, cuta mai raɗaɗi da ƙwayar tsutsotsi Schistosomoma ta haifar, wanda ke yaduwa. ta ruwan katantanwa . Ya gano cewa berries daga shukar endod, wanda aka saba amfani da shi don yin sabulu da shamfu a yawancin sassan Afirka, yana da ƙarfi, mara tsada kuma mai lafiya molluscicide, don hana yaduwar tsutsar tsutsa.     Wannan binciken ya sanya shukar ta zama abin binciken kimiyya a sassa da dama na duniya. Shi kansa Lemma shi ne kan gaba wajen gudanar da wannan bincike Aikin nasa ya samu karbuwa a duniya, wanda hakan ya kai ga samun kyautuka daban-daban ciki har da digirin girmamawa na digiri na uku.  Kyauta mafi daraja ita ce wadda ya ci tare da abokin bincikensa, Dokta Legesse Wolde-Yohannes a watan Nuwamba 1989 - Kyautar Rayuwa ta Dama na Sweden, wanda aka fi sani da Madadin Nobel Prize. https://web.archive.org/web/20130925080343/http://www.rightlivelihood.org/lemma.html

Ya mutu a Amurka a ranar 5 ga Afrilu 1997 kuma an binne shi a Habasha, ranar 13 ga Afrilu. 

Kyaututuka
Right Livelihood Award (1989)

Manazarta

category:Haifaffun 1935
category:Mutuwan 1997