George C. Clerk
Ghanaian botanist and plant pathologist (1931–2019) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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George Carver Clerk, FGA (29 July 1931 – 2 May 2019) was a Ghanaian botanist and plant pathologist.[1][2][3] A professor and later, an emeritus professor at the University of Ghana, Legon, he also focused his research on West African mycology and ecology.[1][2][3] Clerk, along with his academic contemporary Ebenezer Laing (1931–2015), was one of Ghana's earliest practitioners of botany as a scientific discipline, in addition to his pioneering role as a plant pathologist in West Africa.[4][5][6][7][8] In 1973, G. C. Clerk became a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences.[2][3]
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Born | (1931-07-29)29 July 1931 Accra, Gold Coast |
Died | 2 May 2019(2019-05-02) (aged 87) Accra, Ghana |
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Thesis | Studies on the survival and germination of conidia of three entomogenous fungi (1963) |
Doctoral advisor | Michael Francis Madelin |
Other academic advisors | Ronald Karslake Starr Wood |
Doctoral students | Christine Amoako-Nuamah |
Other notable students | George Tawia Odamtten |
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