Ragnar Granit
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Ragnar Granit was a Finnish scientist who lived from 1900 to 1991 and made important contributions to understanding how the eye works. His research on vision earned him international recognition in the field of visual neuroscience.
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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.
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1900 births1991 deaths20th-century Finnish medical doctorsAcademic staff of the Karolinska InstituteAcademic staff of the University of HelsinkiFinnish emigrants to SwedenFinnish neuroscientistsFinnish Nobel laureatesFinnish physiologistsForeign associates of the National Academy of SciencesForeign members of the Royal SocietyInternational members of the American Philosophical Society