Pius Nwankwo Okeke

**Pius Nwankwo Okeke** (an haife shi 30 ga Oktoba 1941) masanin falaki ne kuma malami ɗan Najeriya wanda ya ba da gudummawa sosai ga binciken sararin samaniyar Afirka. An san shi da *sunan Uban Taurari a Najeriya* .

## Rayuwar farko
An haifi Pius Nwankwo Okeke a ranar 30 ga Oktoba (1941) a Oraukwu .   Okeke ya halarci makarantar firamare a garin Oraukwu, inda ya yi fice a fannin lissafi sannan kuma ya halarci makarantar sakandare a Washington memorial Grammar School daga (1957) zuwa 1962. Okeke ya halarci makarantar kimiyya ta gaggawa a Legas, inda ya yi matakinsa na A . A shekarar (1965), ya samu gurbin karatu a Jami’ar Legas inda ya yi karatun Physics. Sai dai saboda yakin basasa ya koma Jami'ar Najeriya inda ya kammala digirin farko a fannin Physics a shekarar 1971. Ya ci gaba da zama dan karamin bincike a jami’a kafin ya kammala digirinsa na uku a shekarar (1975) inda ya zama mutum na farko da ya fara yin hakan. 

## Bincike da aiki
A cikin 1979, Okeke ya koma matsayin mai bincike na Postdoctoral zuwa Jami'ar Cambridge don yin aiki a ƙarƙashin kulawar farfesa Martin Rees . Bayan ya dawo Najeriya kuma a shekarar 1989, ya zama Farfesa kuma shugaban Cibiyar Binciken Sararin Samaniya a Jami’ar Najeriya.  A Jami'ar Najeriya, ya kasance shugaban Sashen Kimiyya da Kimiyyar Astronomy, sannan kuma shugaban tsangayar kimiyyar lissafi daga 1999 zuwa 2002. Tun daga watan Nuwamba 2022, Okeke ƙwararren malami ne a Jami'ar Najeriya. 

Okeke wani masanin kimiyya ne mai ziyara a Jami'ar Tuebingen (1995) da Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (1997), babban jami'in bincike a National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (1993), malami mai ziyara a Cibiyar Astronomical Observatory ta Afirka ta Kudu (1996). ), da Memba na Hukumar Bincike na Ƙasa (Afirka ta Kudu) daga 1994 har zuwa 2000. 

Okeke shi ne shugaban kungiyar Astronomical Society na Afirka kuma darektan Cibiyar Kimiyyar Sararin Samaniya .  Ta hanyar shirye-shiryen karatun digiri mai ƙarfi da wuraren bincike, ya taimaka wajen fara shirye-shiryen kimiyyar sararin samaniya a Afirka. An kafa na'urar hangen nesa ta rediyo mai tsayin mita 25, daya daga cikin mafi girma a Afirka a Nsukka karkashin jagorancin Okeke da hadin gwiwar kasar Sin. 

Okeke ya samar da litattafai 15 kan ilimin lissafi da ilmin taurari .  Okeke shine marubucin Babban Sakandare Physics.  Okeke ya ba da gudunmawa mara misaltuwa ga ci gaban masana ilimi, wanda ake zaton shi ne ke da alhakin samar da kusan kashi 3/4 na masana ilmin taurarin Najeriya.  Ana kiran Okeke a matsayin *uban ilimin taurari a Najeriya* .  

Okeke abokin tarayya ne a makarantar Pan-African na masu tasowa astronomers (PASEA) da makarantar bazara ta yammacin Afirka don matasa masu ilimin taurari.  Tarihinsa, "Braving the Stars", Sam Chukwu da Jeff Unaegbu ne suka rubuta shi a cikin 2013. 

## Kyauta
Okeke shine Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society ( FRAS ), Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Sciences (1998),  Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences (2017),  and the United Nations Consultant for Space Kimiyya a Afirka. A shekara ta 2007, Okeke ya kasance dan Afirka da ya samu lambar yabo ta UN/NASA saboda aikinsa na ciyar da ilimin taurari a Afirka gaba. 

## Rayuwa ta sirri
Okeke ya auri Francisca Okeke, farfesa a fannin kimiyyar lissafi, kuma yana da ‘ya’ya shida.   Francisca Okeke wata kwararriyar likitan kimiyya ce wacce ta ci lambar yabo ta L'Oréal-UNESCO Ga Mata a Kimiyyar Kimiyya a 2013.   

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## Hanyoyin haɗi na waje

* Pius Nwankwo Okeke publications indexed by Google Scholar
* Pius Nwankwo Okeke's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
* Pius Nwankwo Okeke, researchgate profile.