Geoff Palmer
Jamaican-British human rights activist
Died when: 85 years 64 days (1022 months)Star Sign: Aries
(born 1940) Sir Godfrey Henry Oliver Palmer OBE (/'p??m?r/; born 9 April 1940) was a Professor Emeritus in the School of Life Sciences at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, and a human rights activist.
He discovered the barley abrasion process while he was a researcher at the Brewing Research Foundation from 1968 to 1977.In 1998, Palmer became the fourth person, and the first European, to be honoured with the American Society of Brewing Chemists Award of Distinction, considered the "Nobel prize of brewing".
In 1989, he became the first black professor in Scotland, becoming a professor emeritus after he retired in 2005.He was knighted in the 2014 New Year Honours.
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