State Burial for Prof. Allotey Feb 23

World-acclaimed Ghanaian Mathematician Professor Francis Allotey will be given a state burial on Friday, February 23, 2018.

The burial will take place at the Forecourt of the State House, a statement from the Ministry of Information announced.

Professor Allotey died on November 2, 2017.

“The good Professor is a state asset who gained an international reputation that will impact on generations yet unborn, hence the decision to offer him a full state burial for the whole nation and the world to know the value of what we have lost,” President Akufo-Addo said.

Professor Allotey was a renowned scientist who gained world-wide acclaim for his work on Soft X-Ray Spectroscopy which established the principle widely known as the “Allotey Formalism”.

He was once the Pro-Vice Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.

At the national level he held the positions of Chairman, Ghana Atomic Energy Commission, Chairman, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Chairman of the Management Board, Soil Research Institute, Chairman, Ghana Technical Committee on Nuclear Energy, Vice-President, Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, President, Ghana Institute of Physics among others.

He was also a Consultant to several International Institutions, including United Nations Organization, United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), International Atomic Energy Agency, Intergovernmental Bureau for Information, and United Nations Industrial and Development Organization.

Source: Starrfmonline