Francis Allotey

Francis Kofi Ampenyin Allotey (born 1932) is a Ghanaian physicist and mathematician. He is known for the "Allotey Formalism" which arose from his work on soft X-ray spectroscopy. A founding fellow of the African Academy of Sciences,[1] in 1974 he became the first Ghanaian full professor of mathematics and head of the Department of Mathematics at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.[2]

The Professor Francis Allotey Graduate School was established in 2009 at the Accra Institute of Technology[3]

References

  1. ^ Gerdes, Paulus (2007) African Doctorates in Mathematics, p. 370. Commission on the History of Mathematics in Africa
  2. ^ New African (January 2007). "The Allotey formalism: the man who formulated the technique used to determine matter in outer space, Professor Francis K.A. Allotey, receives the 2006 Black S/heroes Award".
  3. ^ Ani-Awukubea, Regina (21 January 2009) "The AIT commences Open University programme". The Statesman (Ghana)

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