C. R. Panabokke

Dr. Panabokke is a very distinguished son of Sri Lanka having excelled as one of the best soil scientists in Sri Lanka or for that matter in the whole world. He graduated with Honours in Chemistry from the University of Ceylon in 1949 and proceeded to the University of Adelaide, Waite Agricultural Re-search Institute in Australia where he completed his PhD degree in Soil Science in 1956, having been placed "proxime accesserunt" for Cuiross Prize for Scientific Research. He is …