- Frederick G. Donnan
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birth_date =September 6 ,1870
birth_place =Sri Lanka
death_date =December 16 ,1956
death_place =Canterbury ,England
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field =Chemistry
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footnotes =Frederick George Donnan FRS (
September 6 ,1870 -December 16 ,1956 ) was an Irish chemist who spent most of his career atUniversity College London . He served as Head of Department from 1928 to 1937.Life and work
Donnan was born in
Sri Lanka and died inCanterbury ,England . He was blind in one eye, and is often shown in profile.The scientific work for which Donnan is largely remembered today is his research into
membrane equilibria . TheDonnan equilibrium is an important concept for ion transport in cells.Before World War II, Donnan was active in helping European refugees wanting to emigrate. Among those he assisted were
Hermann Arthur Jahn andEdward Teller , who wrote their paper on theJahn-Teller effect while in London.Honors
* 1911 - Fellow of the Royal Society
* 1924 - Longstaff Medal of the Chemical Society
* 1928 - Davy MedalSee also
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Donnan equilibrium
*Donnan potential
*Gibbs-Donnan effect Further reading
*cite journal
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year=1957
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title=Prof. Frederick G. Donnan
journal=Nature
volume=179
issue=4553
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pmid = 13407689External links
* [http://www.chem.ucl.ac.uk/resources/history/people/donnan.html University College London page on Donnan]
* [http://www.rsc.org/delivery/_ArticleLinking/DisplayArticleForFree.cfm?doi=TF957530X003&JournalCode=TF Obituary] "Transactions of the Faraday Society", 1957, volume 53, pp. 3 - 4
* [http://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/results.asp?]
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