Alfred joseph clark biography for kids

British pharmacologist

For Australian politician, see Joseph Alfred Clark.

Professor Alfred Joseph ClarkMCFRS^[1]FRSE (19 August 1885 – 30 July 1941) was a British pharmacologist and Professor of Pharmacology at the University College, London.

He was a de-bunker of fraudulent remedies and did many early studies on the placebo effect of many claimed cures.^[2]

Life

He was born in Glastonbury the son of a Quaker, Francis Joseph Clark of Street, Somerset.

He was educated at Bootham School in Yorkshire, and attended the University of Cambridge, graduating with a BA in 1907 and receiving a postgraduate MA in 1910.^[3]

After the First World War he was employed briefly as Professor of Pharmacology at Cape Town University in South Africa, but used this as a stepping-stone to the more prestigious role of Professor of Pharmacology at University College, London where he worked 1919 to 1926, thereafter taking the role as Professor of