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Frederick George Donnan
British chemist
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- Died:
- Dec. 16, 1956, Canterbury, Kent, Eng. (aged 86)
- Subjects Of Study:
- Donnan equilibrium
- colloid
- membrane potential
Frederick George Donnan (born Sept. 5, 1870, Colombo, Ceylon [now Sri Lanka]—died Dec. 16, 1956, Canterbury, Kent, Eng.) was a British chemist whose work was instrumental in the development of colloid chemistry. Donnan was educated at Queen’s College in Belfast, N.Ire., and at the Universities of Leipzig, Berlin, and London. From 1904 to 1913 he taught at the University of Liverpool, and from 1913 to his retirement in 1937 he was professor of chemistry at University College, London. In 1911 Donnan studied the conditions under which equilibrium is established between two electrolytic solutions separated by a semipermeable membrane—that is, by ...(100 of 228 words)