Shaping Minds to Break Through Frontiers in Chemical Research

Abstract

I am honored to have been inducted as the President of the Institute of Chemistry Ceylon for the Year 2021/2022 and have now come to the end of my tenure. Having served as a Senior Academic at University of Colombo for over 4 decades, I have also been associated with the Institute of Chemistry for about 35 years. I have watched the Institute of Chemistry grow productively in many spheres in keeping with the Vision and Mission of the Institute and encompassing the fact that Chemistry is the Central Science. To this end we were able to conduct many activities in spite of the fact that Universities and Schools were not functioning till almost the beginning of the year.