Hubertine Rose Éholie
Hubertine Rose Éholie | |
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| Born | Hubertine Rose Traoré 23 May 1934 French Ivory Coast (present-day Burkina Faso) |
| Died | 11 May 2019 (aged 84) |
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| Education | University of Poitiers |
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| Discipline | Chemistry |
| Institutions | University of Abidjan |
Hubertine Rose Éholie (23 May 1934 - 11 May 2019)[1] was an Ivorian academic. Specialising in chemistry, she had a long career at the University of Abidjan. She retired by 2015 and was a critic of the gender gap of women in academia.
Career[edit]
Hubertine Rose Éholie was born in Burkina Faso, then part of the French colony of Ivory Coast, on 23 May 1934.[2] She studied at the University of Poitiers and was awarded a higher education certificate in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry in 1957 and a certificate of specialised studies in metallurgy, chemistry and physics in 1960.[3] Éholie was awarded Doctor of Engineering Science degree in 1966 and a State Doctorate in 1971 by the University of Abidjan.[4]
Éholie taught at the Lycée classique d'Abidjan before a long career at the University of Abidjan. She began as a teaching assistant before becoming an assistant lecturer and lecturer in the Faculty of the Sciences. She became a senior lecturer, professor and then tenured professor Faculty of Sciences and Techniques. Her specialisms were in crystallography, electro-magnetics, glasses, the silver-arsenic-selenium system, semi-conductors and ternary compounds. She was elected a fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences (now known as The World Academy of Sciences, TWAS), Sub-Saharan Africa Region in 1987 and was one of only 88 fellows elected from that region (as of 2017).[needs update][4] She had retired by 2015.[5]
She wrote an article in 1988 for a Canadian International Development Agency and the Third World Academy of Sciences conference entitled "The role of women in the scientific and technological development of the third world: the case of Cote d'Ivoire".[6] She was a critic of the gender gap of women in academia in the Ivory Coast, particularly in the sciences.[5]
References[edit]
- ^ "Deuil: L'Ascad rend hommage au Pr Eholié Hubertine" [Mourning: Ascad pays tribute to Professor Eholié Hubertine] (in French). Fratmat.info. 2019-06-17. Retrieved 2023-11-21.
- ^ Profiles of African Scientists. African Academy of Sciences. 1990. p. 3. ISBN 9789966831040.
- ^ Profiles of African Scientists. African Academy of Sciences. 1990. p. 2. ISBN 9789966831040.
- ^ a b "Éholie, Hubertine Rose". World Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 23 November 2017.
- ^ a b Takyi-Amoako, Emefa (2015). Education in West Africa. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781441177858.
- ^ M, Faruqui A.; A, Hassan M. H.; G, Sandri (1991). Role Of Women In The Development Of Science And Technology In The Third World - Proceedings Of The Conference Organized By The Canadian International Development Agency And The Third World Academy Of Sciences. #N/A. p. 206. ISBN 9789814632959.
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