CHEMIST

Frederick G. Donnan

1870 - 1956

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Frederick George Donnan (6 September 1870 – 16 December 1956) was a Ceylonese 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 41,698 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Frederick G. Donnan is the 547th most popular chemist (down from 499th in 2019), the 30th most popular biography from Sri Lanka (down from 25th in 2019) and the most popular Sri Lankan Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Frederick G. Donnan ranks 547 out of 602. Before him are Karl Friedrich August Rammelsberg, Helen Murray Free, Nikolai Menshutkin, Hieronymous Theodor Richter, Jürgen Hennig, and Henry Eyring. After him are John Roebuck, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, Bruce Alberts, Martin Kamen, J. L. B. Smith, and Florence B. Seibert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Frederick G. Donnan ranks 154. Before him are Maxfield Parrish, DeLisle Stewart, Julius Körner, Edwin Foster Coddington, Jacques Cariou, and James M. Cox. After him are Major Ritchie, Lilian Gibbs, Walter Chaffe, Hubert Gough, Antonín Slavíček, and Liberato Marcial Rojas.

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In Sri Lanka

Among people born in Sri Lanka, Frederick G. Donnan ranks 30 out of 51. Before him are Dinesh Gunawardena (1949), Malcolm Ranjith (1947), Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (1933), Dudley Senanayake (1911), D. M. Jayaratne (1931), and Dingiri Banda Wijetunga (1916). After him are Thomas Cooray (1901), Duncan White (1918), Joyce Cooper (1909), John Kotelawala (1897), Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala (1810), and Bob Tisdall (1907).

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Among CHEMISTS In Sri Lanka

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

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