Rohan Pethiyagoda
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| Born | Tilak Rohan David Pethiyagoda 19 November 1955 |
| Nationality (legal) | Sri Lankan |
| Education | B.Sc., M.Phil |
| Alma mater | King's College, London, University of Sussex |
| Occupation | Taxonomist |
| Years active | 1990–present |
| Employer | Australian Museum |
| Notable work | Freshwater fishes of Sri Lanka (1990) Pearls, spices and green gold: an illustrated history of biodiversity exploration in Sri Lanka (2007) Horton Plains: Sri Lanka's cloud-forest national park (2012) |
| Awards | Rolex Award for Enterprise Silver Medal (1989) Faraday Award (1990) Kistler Prize (2001) |
| Website | The Wildlife Heritage Trust of Sri Lanka |
Born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on 19 November 1955, Tilak Rohan David Pethiyagoda (abbreviated to Rohan Pett by deed poll in 2010[1][1]) received his secondary education at St Thomas’s College, Mount Lavinia. He obtained his B.Sc. (Eng.) Hons. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from King’s College, University of London in 1977, and an M.Phil. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Sussex in 1980 [2] . From 1981-82 Pethiyagoda served as an engineer in the Division of Biomedical Engineering of the Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka, and from 1982-87 as director of that institution. In 1984 he was concurrently appointed chairman of Sri Lanka’s Water Resources Board. He resigned from government office in 1987 to commence work on a project to explore the island’s freshwater fishes [3-rolex][3], which led to his first book, Freshwater fishes of Sri Lanka (1990[2]), a richly-illustrated account of the country’s freshwater-fish fauna [4].
References
- ^ Ceylon Daily News. 6 September 2010. p. 21.
{{cite news}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ Pethiyagoda, Rohan (1990). Freshwater fishes of Sri Lanka. Colombo: WHT. p. 362. ISBN 955-9114-00-X.
- ^ "Rohan Pethiyagoda > The Project". Rolex Awards for Enterprise. Retrieved 14 January 2012.