The significant reason for East Africa's thriving development in cutting-edge research fields like nuclear physics lies in the sustained efforts in higher education. Although East Africa lacks top-tier figures and is temporarily unable to compare with Europe and America, it possesses the greatest number of university students and young scientific workers in the world. Take the East Africa Nuclear Physics Research Institute, for example, where all members are young people, with the oldest being no more than forty-five years old.
In 1905 alone, East Africa had 370,000 university students enrolled, while at that time, the United Kingdom had only over 7,000 students nationwide. In European countries, Germany had the most students, around 40,000 to 50,000, and the United States had quite a number as well, exceeding 150,000.
