Ragnar Granit

Ragnar Granit
Ragnar Arthur Granit circa 1956
Born
Ragnar Arthur Granit

(1900-10-30)30 October 1900
Died12 March 1991(1991-03-12) (aged 90)
CitizenshipRussian Empire (1900-1917)
Finnish (1917–1941)
Swedish (1941–1991)
Alma materUniversity of Helsinki
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsPhysiology
InstitutionsKarolinska Institutet

Ragnar Arthur Granit ForMemRS[1] (30 October 1900 – 12 March 1991)[2] was a Finnish-Swedish scientist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1967[3][4][5] along with Haldan Keffer Hartline[6] and George Wald "for their discoveries concerning the primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye".[7][8][9][10]

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