Ragnar Granit

Ragnar Arthur Granit ForMemRS^[1] (30 October 1900 – 12 March 1991) was a Finnish-Swedish doctor and scientist. He won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (with Haldan Keffer Hartline and George Wald) for his work on the eye.

Ragnar Arthur Granit
Born	(1900-10-30)October 30, 1900 Riihimäki, Finland
Died	March 12, 1991(1991-03-12) (aged 90) Stockholm, Sweden
Occupation(s)	Doctor and scientist
Known for	Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1967

History

His father was a forester, Arthur Wilhelm Granit, and his mother was Albertina Helena Malmberg Granit. Ragnar Granit married Baroness Marguerite Emma Bruun ("Daisy") in 1929.

For his research into the internal electrical impulses that take place as the eye processes vision, Ragnar Granit was given the 1967 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology.

Granit received Swedish citizenship during World War II, and once said that his Nobel Prize "belongs fifty-fifty to Finland and Sweden".

Education

• High School: Swedish Normallyceum, Helsinki (1919)
• University: Åbo Akademi University (1919)
• University: BS Medicine, University of Helsinki (1924)
• University: BS Philosophy, University of Helsinki (1924)
• Medical School: MD, University of Helsinki (1927)
• Scholar: Oxford University (1927-28)
• Scholar: Physiology, University of Helsinki (1929, 1932-33)
• Scholar: Medical Physics, University of Pennsylvania (1929-31)
• Professor: Physiology, University of Helsinki (1935-40)
• Professor: Physiology, Rockefeller University (1956-66)
• Scholar: Royal Caroline Institute, Stockholm (1940-46)
• Professor: Neurophysiology, Royal Caroline Institute, Stockholm (1946-67)