Frederick G. Donnan

Frederick G. Donnan
Frederick G. Donnan
	Frederick G. Donnan
Born	Frederick George Donnan; 6 September 1870; Colombo, British Ceylon
Died	16 December 1956 (aged 86); Canterbury, England
Nationality	Northern Ireland
Alma mater	Queen's College, Belfast
Known for	Donnan potential; Gibbs–Donnan effect;
Awards	FRS (1911); CBE (1920); Longstaff Prize (1924); Davy Medal (1928);
	Scientific career
Fields	Chemistry
Institutions	University College London; University of Liverpool;
Doctoral advisor	Wilhelm Ostwald
Other academic advisors	J. H. van't Hoff
Doctoral students	Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar

Frederick George Donnan CBE FRS FRSE (6 September 1870 – 16 December 1956) was a British-Irish physical chemist who is known for his work on membrane equilibria, and commemorated in the Donnan equilibrium describing ionic transport in cells. He spent most of his career at University College London.

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