Background
ONWUMECHILI, Cyril was born on January 20, 1932 in Inyi. Son of Nwaime and Akuviro (nee Orji) Onwumechili.
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Cyril Agodi ONWUMECHILI
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Education
King"s College, Lagos, University College, Ibadan and University of London.
Career
Director of chain of observatories 1960-1966. Dean, Faculty of Science, University of Ibadan 1965-1966. Professor, and Head of Department University of Nigeria 1966-1973, 78, Dean, Faculty of Science 1970-1971, Dean, Faculty of Physical Sciences 1973-1976, 1978.
Visiting Professor, of Geophysics, University of Alaska 72.
Consultant, Institute for Space Research, National Research Council of Brazil 1972. Vice-Chancellor, University of Ife, Ile-Ife 1979-1982.
Deputy President Anambra State University of Technology, Enugu 1983-1984, President 1984-1985, ViceChancellor 1985-1986. President Nigerian Academy, of Science.
United Kingdom Chartered Physicist 1986.
Fellow African Academy, of Sciences 1987. Foundation Fellow, Science Association of Nigeria 1974. Vice President Association of African Universities 1984-1989.
Consultant United Nations Economics Commission, for Africa 1987, Commonwealth Science Council 1988.
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Membership
Institute Scientific Programmes Committee, Institute Symposia on Equatorial Aeronomy since 1972, American Geophysical Union, Society for Terrestrial Magnetism and Electricity of Japan, United Nations Advisory Committee on Science and Technical, for Development 1981-1983, Fellow United Kingdom and Nigerian Institute of Physics 1969. Of many national and international boards and councils.
Interests
Connections
Married Cecilia Bedeaka (nee Anyadibe) in 1958.
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Nationality
Nigerian