K. N. Seneviratne was a Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...

n academic and physician

Physician

A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...

. He was a Professor of Physiology and founding director of Sri Lanka's Postgraduate Institute of Medicine

Postgraduate Institute of Medicine

The Postgraduate Institute of Medicine of the University of Colombo is a graduate school that provides specialist training of medical doctors. The only type of its kind, it is similar to the Royal Medical Colleges of the United Kingdom. It was established in 1976 as the Institute of Postgraduate...

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Educated at the prestigious Royal College Colombo

Royal College Colombo

The Royal College of Colombo was founded in January 1835 in Colombo. It is considered to be the leading Public School in Sri Lanka...

 where he won the Arunachchalam Prize and graduated with a MBBS

MBBS

MBBS was a popular BBS system in the Nordic countries during the mid-1990s. It was created by a team of Oslo-based enthusiasts, led by Mike Robertson. As many BBS systems of that era, it was only available for the DOS platform. Since one process could only handle one node, multitaskers such as...

 with honours in 1954 from the University of Ceylon

University of Ceylon

The University of Ceylon was the only university in Sri Lanka from 1942 until 1972. It had several constituent campuses at various locations around Sri Lanka. The University of Ceylon Act No. 1 of 1972, replaced it with the University of Sri Lanka which existed from 1973 to 1978. In 1978 it was...

, Colombo

Colombo

Colombo is the largest city of Sri Lanka. It is located on the west coast of the island and adjacent to Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte, the capital of Sri Lanka. Colombo is often referred to as the capital of the country, since Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte is a satellite city of Colombo...

  and went on to gain his PhD from the University of Edinburgh

University of Edinburgh

The University of Edinburgh, founded in 1583, is a public research university located in Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The university is deeply embedded in the fabric of the city, with many of the buildings in the historic Old Town belonging to the university...

. His brother was Nihal Seneviratne

Nihal Seneviratne

S Nihal Seneviratne is a Sri Lankan civil servant. He was the former Secretary General of Parliament and parliamentary affairs adviser to the Prime Minister...

 former Secretary General of Parliament.

Joining the academic staff of the Colombo Medical School in 1957 as a demonstrator, he went on the became a Professor of Physiology.In 1974 he establish the Institute of Postgraduate Medicine, which later became the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine. He was also a reservist

Reservist

A reservist is a person who is a member of a military reserve force. They are otherwise civilians, and in peacetime have careers outside the military. Reservists usually go for training on an annual basis to refresh their skills. This person is usually a former active-duty member of the armed...

 Captain in the Sri Lanka Army.

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