The Most Famous

CHEMISTS from Sri Lanka

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This page contains a list of the greatest Sri Lankan Chemists. The pantheon dataset contains 602 Chemists, 1 of which were born in Sri Lanka. This makes Sri Lanka the birth place of the 44th most number of Chemists behind Romania, and Vietnam.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Sri Lankan Chemists of all time. This list of famous Sri Lankan Chemists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Frederick G. Donnan (1870 - 1956)

With an HPI of 44.61, Frederick G. Donnan is the most famous Sri Lankan Chemist.  His biography has been translated into 19 different languages on wikipedia.

Frederick George Donnan (6 September 1870 – 16 December 1956) was a Ceylonese-born British chemist who is known for the Gibbs–Donnan effect describing ionic transport in cells. He spent most of his career at University College London.

People

Pantheon has 1 people classified as Sri Lankan chemists born between 1870 and 1870. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Sri Lankan chemists include Frederick G. Donnan.

Deceased Sri Lankan Chemists

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