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Thomas Owusu Mensah

Dr. Thomas Mensah

Born

Thomas Owusu Mensah


c. 1950

Kumasi, Ghana

Died (aged 74)
OccupationPresident and CEO of Georgia Aerospace Systems
Known forPioneer in fiber optic technology
Awards
  • AIChE 100, 2008
  • Fellow AIChE
  • Assoc Fellow AIAA
  • Percy Julian Award
  • MAC Eminent Engineer
  • Fellow National Academy of Inventors

Thomas Owusu Mensah (c. 1950 – 27 March 2024) was a Ghanaian-American chemical engineer and inventor who contributed to the development of fiber optic manufacturing and nanotechnology. He had 14 patents, and was inducted into the US National Academy of Inventors in 2015. In 2017, Mensah served as Editor-in-Chief of the textbook Nanotechnology Commercialization, published by John Wiley & Sons. Mensah died on 27 March 2024, at the age of 74.

Early life and education

Thomas Mensah was born in Kumasi, Ghana. His father, J.K. Mensah, was a merchant who shipped cocoa products to chocolate manufacturers in France. Mensah was fluent in French,

Thomas Owusu Mensah (abt. 1950 - 2024)

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Born about in Kumasi, Ashanti, Ghana

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Died at about age 74in Kumasi, Ashanti, Ghana.

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Biography

Thomas Mensah is a part of US Black heritage.

Thomas Mensah is Notable.

Thomas Owusu Mensah holds many patents in fiber optics science that leap frogged the USA and Sub-Saharan Africa unexpectly forward in communication and the USA in military capabilities.

Thomas Omusu Mensah, PhD

Thomas Owusu Mensah was born in Jan 1950 to father J. K. Mensah in Kumasi, Ashanti, Ghana, Africa.[1][2][3]

Education

Ghana[4]

  • Adisadel College, Cape Coast
  • Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi
    • Chemical Engineering undergraduate
    • Won National French Competition in Accra
      • Ordinary Levels 1968
      • Advnaced Levels 1970

France--French government fellowship

  • Montpellier University

    Mensah, Thomas

    1950—

    Scientist, entrepreneur

    Ghanaian-born materials scientist Thomas Mensah has had a high-flying career, first as a scientist and then as an entrepreneur. Mensah has at least 14 patents to his name, has edited two books and authored several articles, and has been involved with several of the fastest-growing fields in engineering, notably fiber optics and superconductor technology. Late in his career Mensah attempted to turn his theoretical knowledge into moneymaking enterprises, but his efforts ran up against some of the obstacles that face scholars who plunge into the hard world of finance facts and figures. He has an impressive record of accomplishment as one of the few blacks, and even fewer Africans, to excel at the highest levels of science.

    Thomas O. Mensah was born in Kumasi, Ghana, in 1950. He attended school in his home country up to the undergraduate level, receiving a degree in chemical engineering from the University of Science and Technology, Kumasi (now known as the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology) in 1974. In addi

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