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21/31
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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