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Sri Lanka Ranajana [1] Dr Sarath Gunapala (Sinhala:සරත් ගුණපාල) is a solid-state physicist, senior research scientist and group supervisor at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He works primarily in Quantum Well Infrared Photo Detecting. He is also a board member of Quantum Well Infrared Photodetector Technologies LLC.
After school, he attended NASA public mini-lectures and got the opportunity to meet NASA scientists and NASA astronauts. [5] Wijewardane was admitted to Westminster College, Australia. He was selected to study at the University of Flinders to study physics with 18- and 19-year-old students in the science and mathematics division sector. [6]
Classification: People: By occupation: Scientists: By nationality: Sri Lankan Also: Sri Lanka : People : By occupation : Scientists Pages in this category should be moved to subcategories where applicable.
Sri Lanka Aeronautics and Space Agency (SLASA), proposed in 2009. Immediate goal was to construct and launch two satellites. Sri Lankan Telecommunications Regulatory Commission had signed an agreement with Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd to get the relevant help and resources. [151] Sudan Space Agency, proposed in 2017, at progress stage. [152]
Anura C. Perera – science writer, astronomer; Nalin Samarasinha – astronomer, first Sri Lankan to have an asteroid named after him; Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah – Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus, Harvard University; Siva Sivananthan – professor, scientist and Director of the Microphysics Laboratory at the ...
He is a Trustee of the National Trust of Sri Lanka. [2] He is a life member of the Sri Lanka Rationalist Association, the Sri Lanka Philatelic Society, and the Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Science of which he was the Chairman, Committee for the Popularization of Science in 2007. He is President of the Sri Lanka Astronomical ...
Nalin Chandra Wickramasinghe MBE (born 20 January 1939) is a Sri Lankan-born British mathematician, astronomer [1] and astrobiologist of Sinhalese ethnicity. His research interests include the interstellar medium, infrared astronomy, light scattering theory, applications of solid-state physics to astronomy, the early Solar System, comets, astrochemistry, the origin of life and astrobiology.
Ranga P. Dias is a researcher with a primary interest in condensed matter physics.He was an assistant professor in the departments of Mechanical Engineering and Physics and Astronomy at the University of Rochester (UR), and a scientist at the UR Laboratory for Laser Energetics.