He was a gifted MIT physicist who did work of original importance in superconductivity.
Gender:
Male
Marital Status
Married
Name of Spouse
Jemai A. Onwuamaegbu 1965
State of Origin:
Anambra
Father's Name
Father's Status
N/A
Mother's Name
Mother's Status
N/A
Number of Male Children
2
Number of Female Children
1
Profession
Physicist , University Lecturer
Working Experience
Research Associate, Division of Applied Physics, WW. Hansen Laboratory of Physics, Standford University, California, 1966- 67; Research Associate, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA, 1968; asst prof. University of Missouri, Rolla, USA, 1968-70; a prof. Physics, Drexel University.Philadelphia, USA. 1970-72; Physicist, Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology, Lexington, USA, 1972-76; prof. Physics, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, 1976; Head, Department of Physics, 1981-82; Dean, Faculty of Physical Sciences, 1987-89; Co-ordinator, Energy and Material Science Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, 1977; Co-ordinator National Solar Energy Research Project, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, 1981-82; Consultant, ECOWAS Energy Policy Seminar, Lome-Togo, 1983; ch: Senate Committee on Examinations, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, 1986; ch: vice chancellors Committee on Making University of Nigeria, Nsukka, a Centre for Excellence in Electronics, 1977; Organiser, Workshop for Secondary School Teachers, Nigerian Institute of Physics, 1977; Organiser, Indigenous Inventors, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Sponsored by The National Science and Technology Development Agency, 1978; University of Nigeria, Nsukka representative, at the National Universities Commission, on the Nigeria/USA sponsored Workshop on Technological Development in Nigeria, 1979; mm: Federal Ministry of Science and Technology Adhoc Committee on Energy, 1980-81; Represented University of Nigeria, Nsukka at the National Assembly Senate Hearing on Energy, March 10, 1981; Originator of Proposal for the establishment ofa Centre for Solar Energy Research and Development at University of Nigeria, Nsukka; Editor, Nigerian Institute of Physics, since 1979;
Nigerian Academy of Science, 1979; first presd. Solar Energy Society of Nigeria, 1980-82;
presd. Nigerian Academy of Sciences, since 2001;
mm: American Physical Society; Advisory Editorial Board Physica B (Europhysics Journal), Netherlands;
Editor, Nigerian Journal of Physics; Founding Editor, Nigerian Journal of Solar Energy, 1980-82;
Dennis Memorial Grammar School, Onitsha, 1952-58; University College, Ibadan, 1959-60, 1961-62; University of Cambridge, UK, 1962-65.
Tertiary
No
Recipient, Shell-BP Undergraduate Scholarship, University of Ibadan, 1959-62;
Recipient, Crowe’s Prize on Abstract Algebra and Theory of Numbers, Ibadan, 1962;
College Scholar, (Postgraduate) Unibadan, 1963-65.
National Order of Merit 2000
Intermediate Quantum Theory of Crystalline Solids (New Jersey, Prentice-Hall, 1977), contributed chapters in: Man and His Environment, edited by O.C. Nwankiti (Longman, 1981),
Dennis Memorial Grammar School Golden Jubilee Album, 1925-75, and over 50 scholarly papers on Solid state and nuclear physics in national and international journals,
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