MAV Devanathan

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Michael Angelo Vincent Devanathan , who always published his work as MAV Devanathan , was a Sri Lankan chemist who worked as a physical chemist in the field of electrochemistry and contributed to the understanding of the electrochemical double layer .

Devanathan earned an excellent chemist degree from the University of Ceylon in 1947. He received his PhD from Imperial College London in 1951 .

During his work at the University of Pennsylvania, Devanathan and Z. Stachurski developed a cell for measuring permeability. He also worked with J.O'M at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia . Bockris and Klaus Müller together; in 1963 they published an improved model of the double layer, which is also called the BMD model after the authors. In the second half of the 1960s to around 1970, Devanathan worked at the Central Electrochemical Research Institute in Karaikkudi in the state of Madras, today Tamil Nadu , in India , then in Colombo, Ceylon.

From about 1972 until his death, Devanathan worked as director of the Tea Research Institute of Ceylon ; there he researched the relationship between weather, plant growth and yield.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Devanathan Memorial Lecture on Sept. 09. In: The Island. Upali Newspapers, September 8, 2011, accessed November 12, 2014 .
  2. ^ MAV Devanathan, Z. Stachurski: The Adsorption and Diffusion of Electrolytic Hydrogen in Palladium . In: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences . tape 270 , no. 1340 , October 30, 1962, p. 90-102 , doi : 10.1098 / rspa.1962.0205 .
  3. ^ J. O'M Bockris, MAV Devanathan, K. Muller (Klaus Müller): On the Structure of Charged Interfaces . In: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A. Mathematical and Physical Sciences . tape 274 , no. 1356 , June 25, 1963, pp. 55-79 , doi : 10.1098 / rspa.1963.0114 .
  4. ^ MAV Devanathan: Weather and the Yield of a Crop . In: Experimental Agriculture . tape 11 , no. July 03 , 1975, p. 183-186 , doi : 10.1017 / S0014479700006694 .
  5. ^ MAV Devanathan: Quantification of the climatic constraints on plant growth . In: Tea Quaterly . tape 45 , no. 3/4 , 1975, p. 43-72 .
personal data
SURNAME Devanathan, MAV
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Devanathan, Michael Angelo Vincent (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sri Lankan chemist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century