Athula Attygalle

Athula Buddhagosha Attygalle
Born (1950-06-03) 3 June 1950
Residence Hoboken, New Jersey
Nationality Sri Lankan
Education Mahinda College, Galle
Keele University
Occupation Scientist , Research professor of Chemistry

Athula Buddhagosha Attygalle(Sinhalese: අතුල ආටිගල) is a Sri Lankan scientist who is a leading Professor in Mass Spectrometry in the United States of America. He was awarded the "Inventor of the Year" award in 2014 by the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame for his patented work in Mass Spetrometric Analysis utilizing Helium Plasma and charge exchange Ionization techniques.

Education

Attygalle had his primary and secondary education at Mahinda College in Galle, Sri Lanka. After his school education, he entered the University of Peradeniya and obtained a B.Sc in Chemistry in 1972. He then joined the University of Colombo and received a M.Sc in Bio chemistry in 1977. After obtaining a Post Graduate Diploma in Chemistry and Chemical engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, he obtained a PhD in Chemistry from Keele University in 1983.[1]

Career

Attygalle was a visiting professor at University of Houston, Texas and he has served as the Director of Mass Spectrometry facility at Cornell University. He has completed work there in GC-MS regarding insect substances and their identifications.[2] Currently Attygalle is attached to the Stevens Institute of Technology as a Research Professor in the Department of Chemistry. As the head of Mass Spectrometry laboratory,[3] he has been able to make Stevens a leading center for gas-phase ion fragmentation studies.[4]

Attygalle was entitled for the award of "Inventor of the Year-2014" by New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame for his patented work in Mass Spetrometric Analysis utilizing Helium Plasma and charge exchange ionization techniques.[5] This new ionization techniques(HePI) developed by Attygalle has been recognized as a very sensitive technique of detecting explosives and other volatile materials without the need for extensive sample preparation. Professor Attygalle has been an instructor with American Chemical Society since 2007.[6] Attygalle's co-authored the 1999 article "Single-Site Catalysts for Ring-Opening Polymerization:  Synthesis of Heterotactic Poly(lactic acid) from rac-Lactide" in the Journal of the American Chemical Society has been widely cited.[7]

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References

  1. ↑ "American Chemical Society". American Chemical Society. Retrieved 24 July 2017.
  2. ↑ Gehrke, C.W.; Wixom, R.L.; Bayer, E. (2001). Chromatography-A Century of Discovery 1900-2000.The Bridge to The Sciences/Technology. Journal of Chromatography Library. Elsevier Science. p. 420. ISBN 978-0-08-047650-6. Retrieved 24 July 2017.
  3. ↑ "Athula B. Attygalle | Nexus Research News | Stevens Institute of Technology | Schaefer School of Engineering and Science". research.stevens.edu. Retrieved 2017-07-22.
  4. ↑ "Athula B. Attygalle - Stevens Institute of Technology - Schaefer School of Engineering and Science". Nexus Research News. 17 January 2012. Retrieved 18 July 2017.
  5. ↑ "Professor Athula Attygalle Receives New Jersey 2014 Inventor of the Year Award". Stevens Institute of Technology. 23 September 2014. Retrieved 24 July 2017.
  6. ↑ "Athula B. Attygalle - Mass Spectrometry 2016". OMICS International | Open Access Journals | Scientific Conferences and Events Organizer. Retrieved July 13, 2017.
  7. ↑ "Google Scholar search results for Athula B Attygalle". Retrieved 22 July 2017.
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