Ebenezer Laing, FGA, FAAS, OV (28 June 1931 – 19 April 2015) was a Ghanaian botanist and plant geneticist who served as the Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Legon. He was a professor at the University of Ghana, Legon, and later an emeritus professor. Laing, together with his university and faculty colleague, George C. Clerk (1931–2019), was one of the first Ghanaian academics to specialise in botany as a scientific discipline and contributed significantly to the growth of the field in Ghana. He was also a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, inducted in 1965. In 1985, he was elected an inaugural Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences.
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Date of birth | 28 June 1931
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Place of birth | Cape Coast, Gold Coast
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Date of death | 19 April 2015
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Age | 83 (age at death)
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Place of death | Accra, Ghana
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