{"id":4421,"date":"2024-03-29T04:56:31","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T04:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=4421"},"modified":"2024-03-29T05:11:29","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T05:11:29","slug":"pioneering-ghanaian-american-inventor-dr-thomas-mensah-known-globally-for-his-groundbreaking-work-in-fibre-optics-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=4421","title":{"rendered":"Ghanaian Fiber Optics Inventor Dr Thomas Mensah Passes On"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pioneering Ghanaian-American inventor, Dr. Thomas Mensah, known globally for his groundbreaking work in fibre optics, is dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Mensah passed on Wednesday, March 27, 2024, after a brief illness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sad incident according to a statement issued by his family occurred at the Kumasi Catholic Hope Exchange Hospital in the Ashanti Region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ose-youtube ose-uid-ad1660f0055ecf29171b64851a076138 ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:400px; height:400px; max-height:400px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"Youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SupoGFCWLL0?feature=oembed&color=red&rel=0&controls=1&start=&end=&fs=0&iv_load_policy=0&autoplay=0&mute=0&modestbranding=0&cc_load_policy=1&playsinline=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; encrypted-media;accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;gyroscope;picture-in-picture clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen referrerpolicy=\"origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was 74 years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Mensah contributed to the development of fiber optic manufacturing and nanotechnology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He had 14 patents, and was inducted into the US National Academy of Inventors in 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pioneering Ghanaian-American inventor, Dr. Thomas Mensah, known globally for his groundbreaking work in fibre optics, is dead. Dr Mensah passed on Wednesday, March 27, 2024, after a brief illness. The sad incident according to a statement issued by his family occurred at the Kumasi Catholic Hope Exchange Hospital in the Ashanti Region. He was 74 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1448],"class_list":["post-4421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","tag-dr-thomas-mensah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4421"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4426,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4421\/revisions\/4426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}