Dušan Kanazir
Yugoslav/Serbian biochemist and politician (1921-2009)
Dušan Kanazir (28 June 1921 – 19 September 2009) was a Serbian molecular biologist and academic. Kanazir was the president of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Biography
Kanazir was born as the son of Todor "Toša", a barber from Mošorin. His parents moved to Novi Sad, where his father got a job in the Banova Uprava and Women's Teacher School. He was educated in Novi Sad and graduated from mathematics 1940 at the II Male gymnasium. After the World war II, he moved to Belgrade. He studied medicine in Paris in (1945-49), and graduated in Belgrade in 1949. He received his doctorate in 1955. in Brussels in the field of physiological sciences. He completed postdoctoral studies in United States of America.
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