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Ragnar Granit was a scientist recognized in the Royal Society collection, the Nobel Laureates collection, the Nobel Medicine collection, and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection. He was associated with the Nobel Prize, with a count of one.
Granit was born on 1900-10-30 and died on 1991-03-12.
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1967
“for their discoveries concerning the primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ragnar
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Grand Duchy of Finland
- Place of birth
- Riihimäki
- Place of death
- Stockholm
- Occupation
- neuroscientist
- Employer
- Karolinska Institutet
- Languages spoken
- Swedish
- Native language
- Swedish
- Field of work
- ophthalmology
- Image
- Ragnar Granit.jpg
- Work location
- Stockholm
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- member of
- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- Commons category
- Ragnar Granit
- date of death
- 1991-03-12
- date of birth
- 1900-10-30
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- name in native language
- Ragnar Arthur Granit
- ethnic group
- Finland Swedes
- place of burial
- Turku Cemetery
- interested in
- neurophysiology
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Encyclopedic overview
Ragnar Arthur Granit ForMemRS (30 October 1900 – 12 March 1991) was a Finnish and Swedish neurophysiologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1967 along with Haldan Keffer Hartline and George Wald "for their discoveries concerning the primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye". Granit carried out fundamental research on the retina and the physiological mechanisms of colour vision at the University of Helsinki, and later investigated the neural control of movement at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm.
Early life and education
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