Culture of Wonder

Dr. Philip Emeagwali ( eh-may-ah-gwah-lee)

Background
information
Born August 26, 1954 in Akure, Nigeria

A Computer Scientists

Served in the Nigerian Army at the age of 13

Won the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize for price-

performance in high-performance computing

applications

A Mathematician
1. Family
Wife
Dale Brown Emeagwali is married to
Philip Emeagwali. She is a microbiologist,
cancer researcher, and author of many
popular scientific journals.
Siblings
Johnbull Chukwuemeka Emeagwali
Evelyn Nkemakonam Emeagwali
Obianuju Emeagwali
Florence Onyeari Edekobi
Edith Chinwe Emeagwali
Peter Emeagwali
Martin Ikemefuna Emeagwali
Francis Ndaguba Emeagwali

Parents
James Nnaemeka Emeagwali
Agatha Iyanma Emeagwali
 2. Education
Philip Emeagwali went to several schools. He
went to highschool and grade school in Nigeria.
He dropped out at 14 and did not attend school
for three years.
Oregon State University
Philip Emeagwali received a bachelor's
degree in mathematics from in 1977 from
Oregon State University
George Washington University
Philip moved to Washington D.C. where he attended
George Washington University and received his
masters degree in ocean and marine engineering

University of Maryland
He got his second masters which was in mathematician at
University of Maryland

University of Michigan
He attend studied for a Ph.D
degree in computer science at UOFM from
1987 till 1981, his degree was declined. He
3. Occupation

Computer scientist
Philip was a
computer scientist. He
invented the world's
fastest computer.

Mathematician
He was a mathematician
too
Invention
Philip Emeagwali a.k.a. The Bill Gates of Africa Philip quit
school at the age of 14. The reason for this was because his
father couldnt pay for his school fees. That didn't stop him
forming learning his father taught him math at home. He
got inspiration from nature, specifically bees. He found it
interesting the way bees honeycomb work so efficiently. He
thought that computers shw copy this process too.
Emeagwali used 65,000 processor to build the worlds
fastest computer, which performs computations at 3.1
billion calculations per second. He used his computer
science and mathematics skill to create way to develop
How and why

I picked him because he is nigerian and

Igbo and I am nigerian and igbo too. I found
him by searching in google nigerian
scientist.
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