Ragnar Granit
Ragnar Arthur Granit | |
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| Born | October 30, 1900 |
| Died | March 12, 1991 (aged 90) |
| Occupation(s) | Doctor and scientist |
| Known for | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1967 |
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 for his work on the eye.
History
[change | change source]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
[change | change source]- 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)
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Grillner, S. (1995). "Ragnar Granit. 30 October 1900-11 March 1991". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 41: 184–197. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1995.0012. ISSN 0080-4606. PMID 11615354.