Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
Thereafter, he was closely involved with NASA in the Viking and Voyager programmes and was offered membership in both the Space Science Advisory Council and Life Sciences Advisory Council of NASA. According to Arthur C. Clarke, "No other scientist of Sri Lankan origin was internationally known and respected as he was". He produced over 400 ...
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]
Also: Sri Lanka: People: By occupation: Scientists ... Pages in category "Sri Lankan scientists" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.
Piyumi Wijesekara is an American-Sri Lankan postdoctoral research scientist. ... she was chosen among NASA’s four-member new volunteer crew alongside Jason Lee, ...
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.
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 H. Samarasinha (born 1958) is a Sri Lankan born planetary scientist and a discoverer of minor planets, who studies the dynamical evolution and processes of cometary nuclei and comae. [1] Currently, he works as a senior scientist for the Planetary Science Institute in the United States. [2] [3]