Aba Andam
Aba A. Bentil Andam (born 1948) is a Ghanaian particle physicist.
Life
Aba A. Bentil Andam was born in Ghana in 1948. She earned a degree at the University of Cape Coast in Ghana. She sought further education in Britain where she earned a master's degree from the University of Birmingham and a Ph.D from Durham University.
In 1986 and 1987 she studied charmed mesons at the German research station DESY (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron). Her research centred on radon and she surveyed human exposure levels of the radioactive gas in Ghana. Beginning in 1987, she participated in educational clinics at secondary schools promoting women in the sciences.
Andam has been a professor at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology since 1981. She has headed the physics department since the mid 2000s. She conducts research in applied nuclear physics at Kumasi's Nuclear Research Laboratory. She has served as chair of the Women in Science and Technology in Africa's West African region.
Aba
Aba may refer to:
Geographic toponyms
- Aba County, county in Aba Prefecture, Sichuan, China
- Aba, Sichuan, main town in Aba County
People
Abaí
Abaí is a town in the Caazapá department of Paraguay.
Sources
Çatalca
Çatalca is a city and a rural district in Istanbul, Turkey, as Ancient Metr(a)e a former bishopric and Latin Catholic titular see.
It is in East Thrace, on the ridge between the Marmara and the Black Sea. Most people living in Çatalca are either farmers or those visiting vacation homes. Many families from Istanbul come to Çatalca during weekends to hike in the forests or have picnics.
History
Antiquity
Çatalca's ancient Greek name was Ergískē (Ἐργίσκη). Ergiske (Ancient Greek: Ἐργίσκη) was an ancient Greek city in Thrace, located in the region of the Propontis.
According to Suida, the Greek name is after Ergiscus (Ἐργίσκος), a son of Poseidon through the naiad (nymph) Aba (Ἄβα). In Greek mythology, Aba was a nymph and she is presumed to be a daughter of the river Hebros. The site is now occupied in part by modern Çatalca.
Under Roman rule, it was named Metrae or Metre and was important enough in the Late Roman province of Europa (Roman province)|Europa]] to become a suffragan of its capital Heraclea's Metropolitan Archbishop, yet was to fade.
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