Английская Википедия:Daphne Attygalle
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Use Sri Lankan English Шаблон:Infobox officeholder Daphne Attygalle (née Kanagaratne; 1922 – 1989) was a Sri Lankan pathologist who was Professor of Pathology at the University of Colombo.
Biography
Daphne Kanagaratne[1] was born in 1922.[2] She was educated at St. Bridget's Convent, Colombo, and she was later president of their Past Pupils' Association from 1975 to 1977.[3]
In 1970, Attygalle began working as a Professor of Pathology at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo and was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians after spending some time in England for postgraduate work.[2][4] She became an Emeritus Professor at the University of Colombo on 10 September 1987.[5]
Attygalle was dean of the Faculty of Medicine from 1982 until 1986;[6] she was the first woman to serve as a dean at a Sri Lankan university.[7] She declined an offer to serve as vice-chancellor of the University of Colombo (had she accepted she would have been the first woman to be vice-chancellor of a Sri Lankan university),[8] though she would later serve as acting vice-chancellor of the University of Colombo, serving until her death.[1]
Attygalle was the first chair of the Board of Study in Pathology, and she was later re-elected after her first term ended in 1983.[9] She worked as an external examiner at the University of Malaya Faculty of Dentistry.[10]
As an academic, Attygalle's field of work was pathology.[11] She was one of the fifty-three founding fellows of the National Academy of Sciences of Sri Lanka.[12] She was awarded Deshabandu in the 1986 Sri Lankan national honours.[13]
Attygalle married Don Jinadasa Attygalle, senior physician of the National Hospital of Sri Lanka.[1] She died in 1989.[1]
The Faculty of Medicine awards a Professor Daphne Attygalle Medal for Pathology to its students.[14]
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