George C. Clerk
| George Carver Clerk | |
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29 July 1931 Adawso, Gold Coast |
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| Institutions | University of Ghana, Legon |
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| Known for | Contributions to science education and phytopathology |
George Carver Clerk (born 29 July 1931) is a Ghanaian botanist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Ghana, Legon whose research focused on the ecology and the pathology of plant diseases (phytopathology), indigenous to Ghana and West Africa. Clerk, along with his academic contemporary Ebenezer Laing, is one of Ghana's earliest practitioners of botany as a scientific discipline, in addition to being a pioneering plant pathologist in West Africa. G. C. Clerk was also inducted as a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1973.
George Clerk was born on 29 July 1931 in Adawso in the Eastern Region of Ghana. His father, Carl Henry Clerk (1895 - 1982) was an agricultural educator, editor, journalist and Presbyterian minister who was elected the Fourth Synod Clerk of the Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast from 1950 to 1954.Carl Clerk was also the Editor of the Christian Messenger, the newspaper of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana from 1960 to 1963. His mother, Martha Ayorkor Quao (1912-1989) was from La and Ga Mashie. G. C. Clerk's father who had earlier studied agricultural science at Tuskegee University, incidentally named him after the African-American botanist, George Washington Carver, perhaps a foreshadowing of the infant George's future career path. George Clerk had his primary education at Presbyterian schools. He attended the middle boarding school, The Salem School at Osu. He had his secondary education at the Presbyterian Boys' Secondary School (Presec), Odumase-Krobo. He enrolled at the University College of the Gold Coast and received his bachelor’s degree in botany with first-class honours and winning the 1st Prize as the best graduating student in botany from the University of London, then the parent institution of the university college. G. C. Clerk was then awarded a fellowship for postgraduate research at the University of Bristol and earned a joint PhD-DIC in botany from the Imperial College London, University of London.
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