“We want the brightest people to come back.”
As a university student in Nigeria, theoretical physicist Omololu Akin-Ojo learned to write computer code by hand, without the benefit of a computer to run it on. The experience influenced his decision to focus the East African Institute for Fundamental Research (EAIFR) in Rwanda on research in his own discipline. “Theoretical physics is the cheapest advanced research that you can do because you don’t need equipment to get started,” says Akin-Ojo. “You just need paper, a pencil, a brain and maybe a little computer hardware.”
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