Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1987
- Works
- 7
Top works
- El chico que puso hélices al viento
- Une éolienne en Afrique
- The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
- The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, Young Reader's Edition
- Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (Movie Tie-In Edition)
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1958-02-01
- Active to
- 2020-03-24
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 607
- Total plays
- 714
William Kamkwamba (born August 5, 1987) is a Malawian secondary school student, inventor, and author. He gained fame in his country when, in 2002, he built a windmill to power a few electrical appliances in his family's house in Masitala using blue gum trees, bicycle parts, and materials collected in a local scrapyard. Since then, he has built a solar-powered water pump that supplies the first drinking water in his village and two other windmills (the tallest standing at 39 feet) and is planning
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- VMD: Visual molecular dynamics
· 1996 · cited 62,934x
- Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure
· 1976 · cited 44,823x
- Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water
· 1983 · cited 39,536x
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,945x
- Preparation of Graphitic Oxide
· 1958 · cited 28,681x
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- William
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Malawi
- Place of birth
- Malawi
- Educated at
- African Leadership Academy
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Protestantism
- Academic degree
- bachelor's degree
- Official website
- www.williamkamkwamba.com
- Image
- William Kamkwamba at TED in 2007.jpg
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- birth name
- William Kamkwamba
- date of birth
- 1987-08-05
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- William Kamkwamba
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