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Also known as Kamkwamba

Malawian inventor and author

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

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. VMD: Visual molecular dynamics

    · 1996 · cited 62,934x

  2. Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure

    · 1976 · cited 44,823x

  3. Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water

    · 1983 · cited 39,536x

  4. QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

    · 2010 · cited 30,945x

  5. Preparation of Graphitic Oxide

    · 1958 · cited 28,681x

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