Marian Ewurama Addy

National Science and Maths Quiz One of Addy's major contributions to Ghana, and anyone who watched it, was the National Science and Math Quiz show. This quiz show provided senior secondary school students around Ghana the opportunity to compete in a skills math and science quiz.

Personal life Marian Ewurama Addy was married to Ebenezer Charles Oko Addy, a sociologist and former athlete who won a gold medal in the 4 x 100 metres relay at the 1966 Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica. The couple had two daughters, Naa Lamiley Addy-Sadowsky and Lamiokor Esi Addy. She was buried on 1 March 2014 in Saltpond, a historic coastal town in the Central Region of Ghana. The biochemistry department also instituted the annual Professor Marian Ewurama Addy Memorial Lecture in her memory. Her research work in the medicinal biochemistry of herbal products made herbal medicine more popular and acceptable to the scientific community. McCallien Prize, awarded to the best student in Volta Hall, the female hall of residence, 1963 Inducted as a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999. Rewards: An Autobiography (2011)