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volker heine oba , nigeria nigeria chike obi james ezeilo shell-bp 1962 -rrb- crowe 's prize on abstract algebra & theory scholarship of numbers -lrb- 1962 -rrb- department prizes in mathematics -lrb- , 1961 & 1962 -rrb- university of ibadan postgraduate scholarship at university university of cambridge -lrb- 1963 - 1965 -rrb- of ibadan -lrb- 1959 - 300px theoretical physics university institute of technology stanford university university of north carolina , of chapel hill drexel university university of missouri , rolla nigeria , nsukka university of cambridge massachusetts 28 august 1938 superconductivity , isosuperconductivity alexander animalu.jpg alexander animalu
 alexander animalu university of ibadan university of cambridge
alexander animalu

alexander obiefoka enukora animalu , phd is professor emeritus of physics at university of nigeria , nsukka .
he holds a b.sc .
-lrb- london -rrb- , m.a. -lrb- cantab . -rrb-
and ph.d. -lrb- ibadan -rrb- , fas , nnom , iom a pioneer of solar energy in nigeria , animalu is a physicist of international repute , member of the highest advisory body on science and technology to the nigerian government , honorary presidential advisory council on science and technology -lrb- 2001 -- 2003 -rrb- and former director national mathematical centre , abuja .
the only african member till date of the advisory board of the euro-journal physica -lrb- b -rrb- and the only african member of the editorial board of the `` hadronic journal '' , he is also the founding editor of the `` nigerian journal of solar energy '' and one of the pioneering editors of the `` bulletin of the nigerian institute of physics '' .
foundation president of the solar energy society of nigeria , foundation editor , `` nigerian journal of solar energy '' , foundation member , united states energy research and development administration and foundation member and former president of the nigerian academy of science , animalu is author of 28 books in both the sciences and the humanities , including the famous intermediate quantum theory of crystalline solids and biographies of rt. .
hon. dr. nnamdi azikiwe , professor chike obi , professor kenneth dike , professor samuel okoye , professor james ezeilo , professor chukwuedu nwokolo , professor cyril onwumechili among others .
