Prof. Mtingwa initiated and sustained several important centers, societies, institutes, initiatives, networks, and pan-African programs, beyond his own discipline – particularly, the African Laser Centre, the African Physical Society, the African Institute for Mathematical Science in Ghana, the African Light Source Initiative, the Mwalimu Julius K. Nyerere University of Agriculture and Technology in Tanzania. He made significant contributions to science systems in developing countries and contributed to the strengthening of diversity in physics in the USA.
Founding of the African Physical Society, 2007
Sekazi Assumes Presidency of the National Society of Black Physicists (NSBP) in the USA, Jackson State University, 1992
Sekazi receives mentorship from Nobel Laureate, Leon Lederman, Director of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, 1981
Founding of the National Society of Hispanic Physicists in the USA, University of Texas, Austin, 1996
Founding of the African Laser Centre (ALC), Johannesburg, South Africa, 2003
Sekazi Addresses the World Science Forum, Budapest, Hungary, 2019
Group Photo of Members of the C13 Commission on Physics for Development of IUPAP, Annual Meeting, Trieste, Italy, 2019
21st General Meeting and Conference of the Caribbean Academy of Sciences, University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Kingston, Jamaica, 2018
Founding Meeting of the African Light Source Initiative, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), Grenoble, France, 2015
Founding Meeting of the Union of Physicists from Portuguese Speaking Countries and 3rd Physics Conference of Portuguese Speaking Countries, São Tomé e Príncipe, 2019
The 2021 Prize
All 2021 awardees received an original piece of art by scientific photographer Karl Gaff who specializes in microscopy art. Sekazi Mtingwa received ‘Exquisite Beauty’.
