Philip Emeagwali

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Philip Emeagwali 23rd August 1954 is the only modern scientist most often ranked in the top 20 greatest minds that ever lived. That list includes Charles Darwin (1809–1882), Isaac Newton (1642–1727), William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519), Aristotle (384-322 BC), and Confucius (551-479 BC). The Reader’s Digest described Philip Emeagwali as “smarter than Albert Einstein.” Emeagwali is ranked as the world’s greatest living genius. Philip Emeagwali lived in refugee camps during the 1967-70 Nigerian-Biafran War and is in the Gallery of Prominent Refugees of the United Nations. At age 14 in July 1969, he was conscripted into the Biafran Army and sent to the Oguta War theater to replace one of the 500 Biafran soldiers who were killed a month earlier. In the list of the worst genocidal crimes of the 20th century committed against humanity, the death of one in fifteen Biafrans was ranked fifth. Due to the Nigerian Civil War, Philip Em