Nigerian-America scientist, Robert Olusola Okojie, has been inducted into U.S’s National Aeronautics Space Administration‘s (NASA) Inventors Hall of Fame.
Okogie who has been working with NASA for 20 years has 21 patented inventions to his credit, gained worldwide recognition as the leading expert on silicon carbide-based microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) for use in extreme environments.
It was further gathered that he joined the silicon carbide research group at the agency’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland in 1999.
NASA wrote on its website;
He holds more than 20 patents relating to high-temperature devices, including several licensed for commercial use that could reduce spacecraft weight, and thereby launch cost and fuel consumption, while leaving additional space for scientific payloads. He has also published more than 50 peer-reviewed papers relating to his field.
Source: Gossips24.com
