Synopsis
Professor Phinias Mogorosi Makhurane was born in Gwanda, Zimbabwe. In school he was known as Double Brain. His life is a catalogue of firsts, being one of the first two Africans to major in Physics and Mathematics at the University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland; one of the few students to complete both MSC and PhD in Solid State Physics within a period of thirty-nine months, and the first black Zimbabwean to acquire a PhD in the Sciences as well as the second black PhD graduand in Zimbabwe.