university professor Chika Okeke-Agulu (born, September 18, 1966), art historian, professor and director of African Studies, Princeton University Seyi Oyesola, Nigerian doctor, who co-invented hospital in a box Bisi Ezerioha (born 1972), Nigerian engineer, racer and former pharmaceutical executive who has built some of the world's most powerful Honda and Porsche engines. Bennet Omalu (born 1968), Nigerian forensic pathologist, who discovered a neurological deterioration that is similar to Alzheimer's disease while conducting an autopsy on former NFL football player Mike Webster. The 2015 film Concussion played by actor Will Smith was released shedding light on the doctor's fight to reveal his discovery despite major pushback from the NFL. Suleiman Elias Bogoro is professor of Animal Science, specializing in Biochemistry and Ruminant Nutrition. Senegalese Cheikh Anta Diop (1923–1986), Senegalese historian, anthropologist, physicist and politician. Southern Africa South African Christiaan Barnard (1922–2001), South African cardiac surgeon, who performed the world's first successful human-to-human heart transplant. Sydney Brenner (1927–2019), South African biologist, who won the 2002 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine. Allan McLeod Cormack (1924–1998), South African-born American physicist, who won the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Mulalo Doyoyo (born 1970), South African professor, engineer and inventor. Trefor Jenkins (born 1932), human geneticist from South Africa, noted for his work on DNA. Aaron Klug (1926–2018), Lithuanian-born British chemist and biophysicist, who won the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He moved to South Africa at the age of two and studied at the University of Witwatersrand and the University of Cape Town. Tshilidzi Marwala (born 1971), South African scientist and inventor. Thebe Medupe (born 1973), South African astrophysicist and founding director of Astronomy Africa. Azwinndini Muronga, professor of physics and dean of science. Philiswa Nomngongo, professor of Analytical Chemistry and the South African Research Chair (SARChI) in nanotechnology for water. Himla Soodyall (born 1963), South African human geneticist, known for genetic research into the peoples of sub-Saharan Africa. Andries Van Aarde (born 1951), professor of theology at University of Pretoria. Quarraisha Abdool Karim, South African HIV researcher Tanzanian Felix A. Chami, archaeologist and university professor from Tanzania. Erasto B. Mpemba (born 1950), Tanzanian scientist and physicist who discovered the eponymous Mpemba effect, a paradoxical phenomenon in which hot water freezes faster than cold water under certain conditions. African diaspora List of African-American inventors and scientists References Science and technology in Africa African educators, scientists and scholars African educators, scientists and scholars