 George Claassen

George Claassen is a South African journalist who was the head of department of journalism at Pretoria Technikon and Stellenbosch University.Claassen was the first academic in the field of journalism to develop a course in science and technology journalism and can rightly be called the "father of science communication in Africa" 

In 1997 he developed and established the first university course in science and technology journalism at an African university.