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Krešimir Krnjević
Krešimir Krnjević (7 September 1927 – 16 April 2021) was a Canadian- British neurophysiologist of Croatian extraction. Life and work Krnjević was born in Zagreb in the family of prominent politician Juraj Krnjević and spent most of his childhood abroad, including in Geneva, London and Cape Town. He attended the University of Edinburgh earning MBChb in 1949, BSc in physiology in 1951 and PhD in 1953 all at the University of Edinburgh. He continued his post-doctoral studies at the University of Washington, Seattle, 1954–1956, and at the John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Canberra, 1956-1958 after which he returned to the UK as Senior Principal Scientist Research Office at Babraham Institute, Cambridge. After an invitation to be a visiting professor at McGill University, Canada in 1964 he remained there as McGill's Director of Anesthesia Research Department until 1999 and professor of physiology from 1978 to 1987. He gained wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadians
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and Multiculturalism, multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World Immigration to Canada, immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of New France, French and then the much larger British colonization of the Americas, British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
