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1989

Microprocessor​

Ann Arbor, Michigan

While growing up in Nigeria, Dr. Philip Emeagwali was forced to drop out of school at 14 because they could not afford the fees. From self-study and tutelage from his father, Dr. Emeagwali passed the necessary exams to earn his GED and gain acceptance to college in America – earning his bachelors, masters, and PhD. In 1989, he developed a program on a discarded Connection Machine which performed 1.3 billion calculations/second and correctly predicted the amount of oil in a simulated reservoir. His microprocessor technology won him over 100 prizes and was used in the Power Mac G4 model.​

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