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| Ngozi Okeke (Photo credit: Church Mission Society (CMS)) |
A Nigerian physicist Professor Francisca Okeke is
one of the four winners of the 2013 L’Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in
Science.
Okeke won the award for her contributions "to the
understanding of daily variations of the ion currents in the upper
atmosphere which may further our understanding of climate change."
According to UNESCO,
Okeke's academic career has been dedicated to the study of the
ionosphere and she has made outstanding contributions in her field.
The four other recipients were women scientists from Europe, Latin America, North America and the Asia/Pacific regions.
Each recipient will receive $100,000.
The ionosphere
is a part of the upper atmosphere that lies between 50km and 1000km
