Who is Hezekiah Kamuzora?

Answer 1

A Tanzanian-born professor of biochemistry and a nobel prize winner in Natural science..

Answer 2

20 years ago, Tanzanian-born Dr Hezekiah Kamuzora was nominated for a Nobel Prize. In 1983, the Tanzanian medic, then working at the New England Allergy and Immunology Centre in the United States, made history by becoming the first black man to be nominated for the coveted natural science prize since the Nobel Prizes were introduced in 1901. Dr Kamuzora was nominated for the prize in biochemistry with 15 others, all eminent researchers in their own rights. Although he did not win – the prize went to the American, Henry Taube – Dr Kamuzora nomination catapulted him into the rarefied zone of the world's leading scientists.

It was a momentous feat by the academic from Bukoba, who had once worked as a high-school teacher. At the time, only three blacks, including Martin Luther King Jr and Chief Albert Luthuli, had won a Nobel Prize.

Dr Kamuzora was nominated for the 1983 prize for work done between 1972 and 1975 during his PhD degree studies in chemistry at Britain's Cambridge University. The research centred on abnormalities in the blood chemical, haemoglobin, which is used to transport oxygen. The research was born out of earlier observations in Tanzania that an inordinate number of women died of blood loss during childbirth, as well as the fact that many Tanzanians suffer from sickle cell anaemia.

"I decided I was going to do something about it," Dr Kamuzora was quoted as saying later in life. His resolve must have worked, because his work subsequently won acclaim from eminent researchers working on blood diseases. "He has been responsible for extensive and valuable studies of the structure of normal and abnormal foetal and adult haemoglobins" one scientific reviewer, Dr Clayton L. Natta, then of Columbia University said.

Answer 3

Is he one of the characters on the TV show Heroes?