1870 - 1956
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, Frederick G. Donnan ranks 500 out of 509. Before 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.
1871 - 1935
HPI: 44.84
Rank: 494
1851 - 1930
HPI: 44.75
Rank: 495
1817 - 1880
HPI: 44.74
Rank: 496
1949 - Present
HPI: 44.74
Rank: 497
1939 - Present
HPI: 44.73
Rank: 498
1842 - 1911
HPI: 44.63
Rank: 499
1870 - 1956
HPI: 44.62
Rank: 500
1842 - 1907
HPI: 44.62
Rank: 501
1839 - 1917
HPI: 44.52
Rank: 502
1748 - 1820
HPI: 44.50
Rank: 503
1901 - 1981
HPI: 44.36
Rank: 504
1888 - 1956
HPI: 44.22
Rank: 505
1871 - 1942
HPI: 44.19
Rank: 506
Among people born in 1870, Frederick G. Donnan ranks 134. Before 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 165. Before 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.
1870 - 1919
HPI: 45.36
Rank: 128
1870 - 1925
HPI: 45.20
Rank: 129
1870 - 1953
HPI: 45.07
Rank: 130
1870 - 1966
HPI: 45.06
Rank: 131
1870 - 1926
HPI: 44.94
Rank: 132
1870 - 1924
HPI: 44.94
Rank: 133
1870 - 1956
HPI: 44.62
Rank: 134
1870 - 1941
HPI: 44.61
Rank: 135
1870 - 1941
HPI: 44.60
Rank: 136
1870 - 1951
HPI: 44.58
Rank: 137
1870 - 1941
HPI: 44.53
Rank: 138
1870 - 1937
HPI: 44.49
Rank: 139
1870 - 1939
HPI: 44.37
Rank: 140
1906 - 1956
HPI: 45.19
Rank: 159
1867 - 1956
HPI: 45.15
Rank: 160
1899 - 1956
HPI: 44.95
Rank: 161
1889 - 1956
HPI: 44.89
Rank: 162
1892 - 1956
HPI: 44.82
Rank: 163
1911 - 1956
HPI: 44.65
Rank: 164
1870 - 1956
HPI: 44.62
Rank: 165
1905 - 1956
HPI: 44.60
Rank: 166
1881 - 1956
HPI: 44.60
Rank: 167
1891 - 1956
HPI: 44.44
Rank: 168
1890 - 1956
HPI: 44.40
Rank: 169
1915 - 1956
HPI: 44.35
Rank: 170
1892 - 1956
HPI: 44.30
Rank: 171
Among people born in Sri Lanka, Frederick G. Donnan ranks 25 out of 44. Before 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).
1917 - 1987
HPI: 49.62
Rank: 19
1896 - 1981
HPI: 48.16
Rank: 20
1883 - 1952
HPI: 47.66
Rank: 21
1924 - 1993
HPI: 45.99
Rank: 22
1916 - 2008
HPI: 45.18
Rank: 23
1933 - 2016
HPI: 44.65
Rank: 24
1870 - 1956
HPI: 44.62
Rank: 25
1947 - Present
HPI: 44.44
Rank: 26
1949 - Present
HPI: 42.98
Rank: 27
1911 - 1973
HPI: 42.61
Rank: 28
1918 - 1998
HPI: 42.09
Rank: 29
1931 - 2019
HPI: 42.03
Rank: 30
1901 - 1988
HPI: 41.25
Rank: 31
Among chemists born in Sri Lanka, Frederick G. Donnan ranks 1.