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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]
Classification: People: By occupation: Scientists: By nationality: Sri Lankan Also: Sri Lanka : People : By occupation : Scientists Wikimedia Commons has media related to Scientists from Sri Lanka .
His father was a Tamil scholar from Valvettithurai and his mother was teacher of religion and science. [1] He was educated at Saraswathi Maha Vidyalayam, Drieberg College and Jaffna Hindu College (1968–75). [1] [2] [3] After school he joined the University of Peradeniya's Science Faculty in 1976, graduating in 1980 with a BS degree in physics ...
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 ...
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In July 1961, NASA started the construction of the permanent facility, Space Flight Operations Facility (SFOF). The facility was completed in October 1963 dedicated on May 14, 1964. In the initial setup of the SFOF, there were 31 consoles, 100 closed-circuit television cameras, and more than 200 television displays to support Ranger 6 to Ranger ...