Carlo fonseka biography
- Carlo Fonseka (Sinhala: කාලෝ ෆොන්සේකා Kālō Fonsēkā; 4 March 1933 – 2 September 2019) was a.
- Carlo Fonseka was a Sri Lankan physician, academic and political activist.
- Born in 1933 to a Roman Catholic family, Fonseka was educated at Maris Stella College Negombo and St. Joseph's College Colombo.
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By Kumudini Hettiarachchi
‘In remembrance’ organised by the Colombo University’s Department of Medical Humanities, Faculty of Medicine, pays a fitting and moving tribute to Prof. Carlo Fonseka on his first death anniversary
View(s):Prof. Fonseka fire-walking at a demonstration in a public place, from a presentation on Wednesday
A startling image on the screen – a fire-walker and then back to the present on Wednesday and a walk down not-too-distant memory lane to commemorate a colourful legend!
He may have been a diminutive 5’ but he was a ‘giant’ who exuded a powerful influence over thousands of fresh-faced medical students, while striding across the public stage in Sri Lanka and the world like a colossus.
Just a year after the death of Prof. Carlo Fonseka (86), scholar, rationalist, philosopher, visionary and most of all wonderful human being, many eminent personalities gave of their time and memories at ‘In remembrance’, a poignant ceremony organized by the Department of Medical Humanities, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo on September 2.
It was in this
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Carlo Fonseka
Sri Lankan physician, academic, and political activist (1933–2019)
Carlo Fonseka (Sinhala: කාලෝ ෆොන්සේකාKālō Fonsēkā; 4 March 1933 – 2 September 2019)[1] was a Sri Lankan physician, academic and political activist. He was a former dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya and a former president of the Sri Lanka Medical Council.
Early life and family
Fonseka was born on 4 March 1933 in Colombo, Ceylon.[2] His family were Roman Catholics.[3][4] He was educated at Maris Stella College, Negombo and St. Joseph's College, Colombo.[2][5][6] After school he joined the University of Ceylon's Faculty of Medicine in Colombo in 1955, graduating in 1960 with a first class MBBS degree.[7][8][9]
Career
After graduating Fonseka joined the Colombo General Hospital as an intern under professor K. Rajasuria and senior surgeon Dr. Noel Bartholomeusz.[8] He then joined the base hospital in Mirigama, near his home village of Divulap
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By S. Ratnajeevan H. Hoole –
Prof. S. Ratnajeevan H. Hoole
There was a time when science was just one endeavor among many for the great scientists of the world. For example, Isaac Newton was a true polymath – a celebrated master of astronomy, chemistry, mathematics, physics and theology1. Another polymath was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, more popularly known by his pen name Lewis Carroll. He was an Oxford mathematician, Anglican theologian, musician, author, publisher and political scientist to whom is attributed the electoral system of proportional representation which is presently the subject of raging debates in Sri Lanka and a matter of personal interest to me as I labour at the Election Commission in Sri Lanka.
Science now, however, is so specialized with small incremental advances that there are few polymaths today. Carlo Fonseka (MBBS (First Class), University of Ceylon; Ph D, University of Edinburgh; Emeritus Professor of Physiology at the University of Ceylon (now Colombo)) is exception – engaging in medicine, management of public bodies, theology, music, le
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