Professor Gaspar Ndamalya Ndaalio (1935-1999)
Gaspar G. Ndaalio (Ph.D.), professor of physical chemistry, passed away on 3rd October 1999. The late professor is remembered by most of us as a dedicated academician and teacher at the University of Dar es Salaam during his tenure at the university, by then the only university (or rather constituent college of the University of East Africa), in the country.
He was among a small core of local talent who helped found the chemistry department at the university, commencing his tenure in 1967.
He had obtained his doctorate at the University of Toronto, and had previously studied for the Bachelors and Masters awards in Ireland. The late Ndaalio also served as Head of The Chemistry Department at UDSM as well as shouldering various university and faculty assignments such as those of Associate Dean etc.
He later became Director General of The Tanzania Industrial Research development Organisation (TIRDO) after which he retired and took up contract tenure at The Open University of Tanzania (OUT) in 1995 where he worked up to the time of his death. MAY THE ALMIGHTY GOD REST HIS SOUL IN ETERNAL PEACE