List of Nigerian scientists and scholars

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This is a list of Nigerian scientists and scholars. Nigeria is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in the north. Its coast in the south lies on the Gulf of Guinea on the Atlantic Ocean. The three largest and most influential ethnic groups in Nigeria are the Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba.

Nigerian scientists and scholars

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B

• Olumbe Bassir biochemistry and microbiology

D

• John Dabiri aeronautical engineering and biophysics

E

• Michael Echeruo literature
• Philip Emeagwali mathematician and engineer
• Emmanuel Emovon chemist

F

• Babs Fafunwa educationist
• Toyin Falola historian
• Adeyinka Gladys Falusi haematologist
• Oluwole Babafemi Familoni chemist

G

• Ibrahim Gambari political scientist

M

• Awele Maduemezia physicist
• Emmanuel Ndubisi Maduagwu biochemist
• Oliver Mobisson computer scientist

N

• Eni Njoku botanist
• Bartholomew Nnaji mechanical and industrial engineering
• Eucharia Oluchi Nwaichi environmental biochemist
• Ejikeme Patrick Nwosu scientist
• Humphrey Nwosu political scientist

O

S

• Omowunmi Sadik chemist
• Winston Wole Soboyejo mechanical and aerospace engineering
• Olusoga Sofola physiologist
• Wole Soyinka writer

T

• Grace Oladunni Taylor biochemist
• Oyewale Tomori virologist

U

• Ibrahim H. Umar physicist

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