Frederick G. Donnan | |
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Born | Frederick George Donnan 6 September 1870 |
Died | 16 December 1956 Canterbury, England | (aged 86)
Alma mater | Queen's College, Belfast (BA) Leipzig University (PhD) |
Known for | Donnan potential Gibbs–Donnan effect |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Chemistry |
Institutions | University College London University of Liverpool |
Doctoral advisor | Wilhelm Ostwald |
Other academic advisors | J. H. van't Hoff |
Doctoral students | Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Jaroslav Heyrovský |
Frederick George Donnan CBE FRS FRSE (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. He spent most of his career at University College London.[2][3][4][5]
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