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Sir Godfrey Henry Oliver Palmer OBE (born 9 April 1940〔("Godfrey Henry Oliver (Geoff) PALMER" ), Debrett's People of Today.〕) is a Professor Emeritus in the School of Life Sciences at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, and a human rights activist.〔(The Z Files: Professor Geoff Palmer ) Open.edu. Retrieved 25 December 2011.〕〔("Professor Geoff Palmer to Made Freeman Midlothian" ), News & events, Heriot-Watt University, 14 September 2011. Retrieved 25 December 2011.〕 He discovered the barley abrasion process while 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,〔(Award of Distinction ), American Society of Brewing Chemists〕 considered the "Nobel prize of brewing".〔 In 1989, he became the first black professor in Scotland,〔(Claim that Scots are more tolerant of immigration is a 'myth', says country's first black professor ), Daily Telegraph, 10 March 2015〕 becoming a professor emeritus after he retired in 2005. He was knighted in the 2014 New Year Honours.〔("First black university professor knighted" ), ''Herald Scotland'', 31 December 2013.〕〔("Godfrey Henry Palmer is Scotland's first black professor in Scotland" ), jackiekemp.com. Retrieved 25 December 2011.〕 ==Early life== Palmer was born in St Elizabeth, Jamaica.〔(Professor Palmer ), 100 Great Black Britons. Retrieved December 25, 2011.〕 His father left home when he was seven years old;〔 after his mother moved to work as a dressmaker in England in 1948, Palmer grew up in Kingston, Jamaica under the care of his eight aunts.〔("Biography - Geoff Palmer" ). From Marjorie H. Morgan, ''Caribbean Britain: The Cultural and Biographical Directory'', 2013.〕 He joined his mother in London in March 1955, shortly before his 15th birthday, living at a house on the Caledonian Road. Too young to work, he was assessed as educationally subnormal at his first school,〔 and he was sent to Shelborne Road Secondary Modern.〔 His cricketing skill gained him a place on the London Schools' cricket team, and a place at a Highbury Grammar School.〔 After leaving school in 1958 with six O-Levels and two A-levels, in botany and zoology, he found a job as a junior lab technician at Queen Elizabeth College, London University, working for Professor Garth Chapman. He gained further qualifications studying one day a week at a local polytechnic. In 1961 Palmer went to Leicester University, earning a degree (2:2) in botany by 1964.〔 He sought post-graduate work, and applied to study for an MSc at the University of Nottingham, funded by the Ministry of Agriculture. He has claimed that Sir Keith Joseph was on the interview panel and, unimpressed by his inability to tell wheat and barley apart, advised him to return to Trinidad and grow bananas.〔(Keith Joseph suggested I 'go back and grow bananas' ), Times Educational Supplement, 15 August 2003〕 However, Joseph was not at any time connected with the Ministry of Agriculture and there is no independent evidence that Joseph was ever a member of a panel at Nottingham University on the topic; it has been suggested that Palmer may have mistaken him for someone else.〔Charles Moore, ("Spectators Notes" ), ''The Spectator'' website, accessed 10 September 2015.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Geoff Palmer (scientist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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