Jonathan Olatunde Lawrence was a born intellectual. He was blessed with a high capacity for original thinking and the acquisition of knowledge.
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He was therefore outstanding in almost all his endeavours.
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He found music easy where others strove to acquire the art. He was an artist who could have made painting his profession. In sports, he was the captain of his school's tennis team, one of the best swimmers of his days, and a member of the cricket eleven.
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He was even a King's Scout, when that attainment was considered an achievement of a high degree.
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And though he had little time for athletics in the secondary school, he made up for that by featuring prominently for Oxford University where he graduated in Nuclear Physics as the first African to ever have the qualification.
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He had earlier done the Pre-medical first degree in Liverpool University, and it was at a time when the prodigious potentials of nuclear energy were being explored for various functions including medicine.