{"id":13969,"date":"2017-03-06T13:13:34","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T12:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=13969"},"modified":"2017-11-24T13:08:09","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T12:08:09","slug":"owolabi-professor-israel-esan","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/owolabi-professor-israel-esan\/","title":{"rendered":"OWOLABI, Prof. Israel Esan"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.Sc, Ph.D, physicist, born April 27, 1935, Ayegbaju-Ekiti, Ekiti State; married Abike, three sons, one daughter; Education: Afri can Church School, Arigidi-Ekiti (now Ayegbaju-Ekiti), 1941-44, United School, Oye-Ekiti, 1945-47, Methodist School, Ifaki- Ekiti, 1948-49, Christ&#8217;s School, Ado-Ekiti, 1951-55, Nigerian College of Arts, Science and Technology, Ibadan, 1956-58, Univer sity College (now University of Ibadan), Ibadan, 1958-61, University of Durham, En gland, 1961-64; Career: Appointed Lec turer II, Lecturer I and later SeniorLecturer, Department of Physics, University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), Ile-Ife, 1964-71; Senior Lecturer, Department of Electronicand Electrical Engineering,OAU, Ile-Ife, 1971-76; Associate Professor and Acting Head, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, OAU, Ile-Ife, 1976- 78; appointed Professor of Electrical Engi neering, University of Ilorin, October 1978; Head, Department of Electrical Engineering, Unilorin, 1978-80; Dean, Faculty of Engi neering and Technology, Unilorin, 1980-84; appointed Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Unilorin, since February 1989; member, Institute of Physics, since 1966; fellow, Royal Meteoro logical Society; fellow, Institution of Elec trical Engineers, UK; fellow, Nigerian Soci ety of Engineers; Publications: numerous articles in scholarly journals; Hobbies: gardening, lawn tennis, music; Official Ad dress: Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Kwara State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176,178],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-13969","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-academia","category-professional"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/13969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/13969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13969"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=13969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}