{"id":9745,"date":"2017-02-06T15:54:26","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T14:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=9745"},"modified":"2017-05-23T10:48:03","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T09:48:03","slug":"ezeilo-professor-james-okoye-chukuka","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ezeilo-professor-james-okoye-chukuka\/","title":{"rendered":"EZEILO, Professor James Okoye Chukuka"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.Sc,M.Sc,Ph.D, mathematician, administrator, bom January. 17, 1930; married Phoebe Uchechukwu 1960, two sons, two daughters; Education: Dennis Memo rial Grammar School, Onitsha, 1944-48, Uni versity College (now University of Ibadan), Ibadan, 1949-55, Queen&#8217;s College, Univer sity of Cambridge, England, 1955-58; Ca reer: Appointed Lecturer in Mathematics, University of Ibadan, 1958-62; Senior Lec turer, University of Ibadan, 1962-63; Visit ing Lecturer and Research associate, Univer sity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, 1963- 64; appointed Professor of Mathematics, University of Ibadan, 1964-66; appointed Professor and Head, Department of Math ematics, University ofNigeria, Nsukka, 1966-75; Chairman, Department of Math ematics, University ofNigeria, Nsukka, 1967; acting Vice Chancellor, University of Nigeria, 1970-71; appointed Vice Chancel lor, University ofNigeria, Nsukka, 1975-78; Vice-Chancellor, Bayero University, Kano, ,1978-79; Chairman, Committee of Vice- Chancellors of Nigerian Universities, 1978- 79; currently Director, National Mathemati cal Centre, Abuja, since January 1988; Benedict Distinguished Professor of Math ematics, Carleton College, Minnesota, USA, 1979; member, National Merit Award Com mittee, 1979; member, Board ofthe National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru, since 1983;Visiting Professorof Math ematics, Howard University, Washington, USA, 1979-80; member, London Mathemati cal Society; member American Mathemati cal Society; member, Science Association of Nigeria member, Nigerian Council for Sci ence and Technology, 1970-75; member, Mathematical Association ofNigeria, Presi dent, MAN, 1972-74; member, Nigerian Mathematical Association, President, since 1984; Foundation fellow,Nigerian Academy ofScience; fellow, Third World Academy of Sciences, 1986; fellow, African Academy of Sciences, 1988; fellow, Mathematical Asso ciation ofNigeria, 1988; chairman, Projects Development Agency, 1970-74; National Honour: awarded Commander ofthe Order ofthe Niger, 1979; Honorary Degree conferred with the Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Maiduguri, February 1989; Honourary Doctor ofTechnology, University of Science and Technology, Akure, 1995; Honourary Doctor of Science, university of Nigeria, Nsukka, 1996; Hobby: reading; Publications: Over 75 publications in learned national and international journals; Official Address: Office of the Director, National Mathematical Centre, PMB 118, Abuja; Home: 310 Marguerite Cartwright Avenue,University ofNigeria, Nsukka Cam pus, Enugu State. Telephone: 042-771770.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176,749],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-9745","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-academia","category-administrator"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/9745","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\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/9745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9745"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=9745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}