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KENNETH CRAIK was born on March 29, 1914. He died as the result of an accident on V.E.-Day, May 8, 1945. Into this brief period he managed to pack achievements and promise far beyond the range of most people whose span of life is normal. His school was Edinburgh Academy. He was almost wholly on the Classical side. At seventeen he entered the University of Edinburgh. Here he read philosophy with distinction, was given his first taste of psychology by Prof. James Drever, and won the Hamilton and then the Shaw Fellowships. By now he had developed many hobbies, collecting all kinds of natural objects, constructing models, learning the accurate and minute use of tools, and developing a wide, lively and rather unconventional interest in the methods of natural science and the results of their application.
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BARTLETT, F. Dr. K. J. W. Craik. Nature 155, 720 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155720a0
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