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Scotland’s first black professor who won ‘Nobel prize of the beer world’

Scotland’s first black professor who won ‘Nobel prize of the beer world’

Sir Geoff Palmer, who has died aged 85, earned a reputation as a trailblazer and inspiration within higher education and in wider society as chancellor and professor emeritus at Heriot-Watt University and Scotland’s first black professor.

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