Erasto B. Mpemba

Erasto B. Mpemba
Mpemba as a schoolboy (~1963)
Born1950 (1950)
Tanganyika Territory
DiedMay 14, 2023 (aged 73)
Tanzania
Alma materCollege of African Wildlife Management

University of Canberra

Sul Ross State University
Known forMpemba effect
Scientific career
FieldsNatural resource management
InstitutionsMinistry of Natural Resources and Tourism

Erasto Bartholomeo Mpemba (1950–2023) was a Tanzanian game warden who, as a schoolboy, discovered the eponymous Mpemba effect, a paradoxical phenomenon in which hot water freezes faster than cold water under certain conditions.


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