Raphael Ernest Grail Armattoe was an acclaimed Ghanaian scientist and political activist. He was runner up in the 1948 Nobel Prize in Physiology and was a campaigner for unification of British and French Togoland. He was called by the New York Post "the 'Irishman' from West Africa", and the BBC producer Henry Swanzy referred to him as the "African Paracelsus".
