Krešimir Krnjević#

Obituary, McGill University
Obituary, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (in Croatian)

Biography#

Kresimir Krnjevic is Emeritus professor of Physiology, at McGill University, Montreal. He was born in Zagreb, Croatia, obtained his MBChB at the University of Edinburgh and then went on to a PhD in Physiology (under D. Whitteridge). After two post docs in Seattle and Canberra (the latter with J. C. Eccles) he returned to the UK, to spend 5 years at Babraham (under J. H. Gaddum). He has been at McGill since 1964, where he was head of Anaesthesia Research until retirement in 2000, as well as chairman of the Physiology department for 10 years (1978–1987).