Frederick G. Donnan

Frederick G. Donnan
CBE FRS FRSE
Donnan in 1927
Born
Frederick George Donnan

(1870-09-06)6 September 1870
Colombo, British Ceylon
(now Sri Lanka)
Died16 December 1956(1956-12-16) (aged 86)
Canterbury, England
Alma materQueen's College, Belfast (BA)
Leipzig University (PhD)
Known forDonnan potential
Gibbs–Donnan effect
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry
InstitutionsUniversity College London
University of Liverpool
Doctoral advisorWilhelm Ostwald
Other academic advisorsJ. H. van't Hoff
Doctoral studentsShanti Swaroop Bhatnagar
Jaroslav Heyrovský

Frederick George Donnan CBE FRS FRSE (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.[2][3][4][5]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference frs was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Goodeve, C. F. (1957). "Prof. Frederick G. Donnan, C.B.E., F.R.S". Nature. 179 (4553): 235–236. Bibcode:1957Natur.179..235G. doi:10.1038/179235a0. PMID 13407689.
  3. ^ "Frederick George Donnan". Transactions of the Faraday Society. 53: X003–X004. 1957. doi:10.1039/TF957530X003.
  4. ^ http://www.chem.ucl.ac.uk/resources/history/people/donnan.html University College London page on Donnan
  5. ^ http://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/results.asp?image=10401616 Picture and signature of Donnan