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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.
She is attached with the Radiation Biophysics Laboratory at NASA Ames Research Centre in California's Silicon Valley. Her research area has been emphasized especially on developing tissue models to investigate the effects of spaceflight stressors, inclusive of ionization of radiation and lunar dust on the human respiratory system.
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]
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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 ...
Cyril Ponnamperuma was born in Sri Lanka [1] on 16 October 1923. After completing his early education with flying colours at St. Aloysius' College, Galle and subsequently at St. Joseph's College, Colombo, Ponnamperuma proceeded to India and in 1948 obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from the University of Madras.