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Frederick G. Donnan

1870 - 1956

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Frederick George Donnan CBE FRS FRSE (6 September 1870 – 16 December 1956) was a British-Irish physical chemist who is known for his work on membrane equilibria, and commemorated in the Donnan equilibrium describing ionic transport in cells. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frederick G. Donnan has received more than 39,171 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Frederick G. Donnan is the 500th most popular chemist (down from 490th in 2019), the 25th most popular biography from Sri Lanka (up from 28th in 2019) and the most popular Sri Lankan Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Frederick G. Donnan ranks 500 out of 509Before him are Nikodem Caro, Rainer Ludwig Claisen, Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès, Jiří Drahoš, George M. Whitesides, and Albert Ladenburg. After him are Nikolai Menshutkin, James Crafts, Charles Blagden, Henry Eyring, Walther Kossel, and Max Bodenstein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Frederick G. Donnan ranks 134Before him are George Eyser, Lilian Gibbs, John Marin, Maxfield Parrish, Antonius van den Broek, and Lloyd Hildebrand. After him are DeLisle Stewart, Karel Kašpar, Jacques Cariou, Verner Järvinen, Harry Vardon, and Bautista Saavedra. Among people deceased in 1956, Frederick G. Donnan ranks 165Before him are Augustin Chantrel, Frank Brangwyn, Jan Lechoń, Lajos Asztalos, Manilal Gandhi, and Babe Didrikson Zaharias. After him are Robert Newton, Juan José de Amézaga, Katherine MacDonald, Edward Arnold, Khadr El-Touni, and Guido Boni.

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In Sri Lanka

Among people born in Sri Lanka, Frederick G. Donnan ranks 25 out of 44Before him are M. G. Ramachandran (1917), William Gopallawa (1896), D. S. Senanayake (1883), Ranasinghe Premadasa (1924), Dingiri Banda Wijetunga (1916), and Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (1933). After him are Malcolm Ranjith (1947), Ranil Wickremesinghe (1949), Dudley Senanayake (1911), Duncan White (1918), D. M. Jayaratne (1931), and Thomas Cooray (1901).

Among CHEMISTS In Sri Lanka

Among chemists born in Sri Lanka, Frederick G. Donnan ranks 1