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Evening Standard
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Neil Pooran

Tributes paid to ‘trailblazer’ academic Sir Geoff Palmer after death aged 85

Sir Geoff Palmer, one of Scotland’s best-known academics who was the country’s first black professor, has died at the age of 85.

The professor was long associated with Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, serving as chancellor and professor emeritus for many years.

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