A.J. Clark

Prof Alfred Joseph Clark MC FRSFRSE (19 August 1885 – 30 July 1941) was a British pharmacologist and Professor of Pharmacology at the University College, London. He was a de-bunker of fraudulent remedies and did many early studies on the placebo effect of many claimed cures.

He was born in Glastonbury the son of a Quaker, Francis Joseph Clark of Street, Somerset. He was educated at Bootham School in Yorkshire, and then won a place at Cambridge University, graduating BA in 1907 and receiving a postgraduate MA in 1910.

After the First World War he was employed briefly as Professor of Pharmacology at Cape Town University in South Africa, but used this as a stepping-stone to the more prestiguous role of Professor of Pharmacology at University College, London where he worked 1919 to 1926, thereafter taking the role as Professor of Materia Medica at Edinburgh University.

In 1928 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, his proposers included James Hartley Ashworth, George Barger and Sir James Alfred Ewing. He was elected to the Royal Society in 1931.

He served on the Medical Research Council from 1934 to 1938.

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