Vidya Jyothi Osmund Jayaratne (2 October 1924[1] – September 2006) was a Sri Lankan academic and politician.
[2] As a left wing politician he was a member of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party playing major role in the Hartal 1953.
Thereafter he did his PhD in Atmospheric Electricity and Cloud Physics at the Imperial College of the University of London.
Basil John Mason who later became the Director General of Meteorological Office.
[3] Heading the committee to reform higher education in the 1970s, he was instrumental in the formation of the University of Sri Lanka centralizing the administration by bring under it the semi independent campuses that existed under the University of Ceylon.