Geoff Palmer (scientist)

Sir Geoff Palmer
KT OBE CD
Born
Godfrey Henry Oliver Palmer

(1940-04-09) 9 April 1940 (age 84)
St Elizabeth, Jamaica
EducationKingston Senior School, and North Street Congregational School, Jamaica. Highbury County School, London.
Alma materUniversity of Leicester
University of Edinburgh
Heriot-Watt University
Known forFirst black professor in Scotland, Barley abrasion process
Scientific career
Doctoral advisorEdmund Hirst
Other academic advisorsAnna Macleod

Sir Godfrey Henry Oliver Palmer KT OBE CD (born 9 April 1940),[1] commonly known as Geoff Palmer, is a Jamaican-British academic and human rights activist who is professor emeritus in the School of Life Sciences at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland.[2][3]

Palmer discovered the barley abrasion process while he was a researcher at Heriot-Watt University under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Anna M. Macleod. In 1998, Palmer was honoured with the American Society of Brewing Chemists Award of Distinction,[4] considered the "Nobel prize of brewing".[5]

In 1989, he became the first black professor in Scotland,[6] becoming a professor emeritus after he retired in 2005. He was knighted in the 2014 New Year Honours.[7][8]

  1. ^ "Godfrey Henry Oliver (Geoff) PALMER" Archived 10 November 2014 at the Wayback Machine, Debrett's People of Today.
  2. ^ The Z Files: Professor Geoff Palmer Open.edu. Retrieved 25 December 2011.
  3. ^ "Professor Geoff Palmer to Made Freeman Midlothian" Archived 16 June 2012 at the Wayback Machine, News & events, Heriot-Watt University, 14 September 2011. Retrieved 25 December 2011.
  4. ^ Award of Distinction Archived 23 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine, American Society of Brewing Chemists
  5. ^ Keith Joseph suggested I 'go back and grow bananas', Times Educational Supplement, 15 August 2003
  6. ^ Auslan Cramb, "Claim that Scots are more tolerant of immigration is a 'myth', says country's first black professor", Daily Telegraph, 10 March 2015.
  7. ^ "First black university professor knighted", Herald Scotland, 31 December 2013.
  8. ^ "Godfrey Henry Palmer is Scotland's first black professor in Scotland", jackiekemp.com. Retrieved 25 December 2011.[dead link]