Ragnar granite

Ragnar granite, 1956.

Ragnar Arthur Granit (born October 30, 1900 in Riihimäki , Finland , † March 12, 1991 in Stockholm , Sweden ) was a Finnish-Swedish neurophysiologist and Nobel Prize winner .

Granite provided essential work on the chemical-physiological processes in the retina of the eye .

Life

Ragnar Arthur Granit had participated in the Finnish War of Liberation against the Soviet Union until 1918. In 1919 he enrolled at the University of Helsinki for experimental psychology and also studied medicine. He received a master's degree in psychology in 1923 and a doctorate in medicine in 1927. In Helsinki he was a professor from 1935 to 1940, then at the Swedish Karolinska Institutet . He was also President of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences . In 1960 he was elected an external member of the Royal Society . Together with George Wald and Haldan Keffer Hartline, he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1967 for the study of physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye. In 1954 he was elected to the American Philosophical Society , 1968 to the National Academy of Sciences and 1971 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

↑ Uwe Böhm: Granit, Ragner Arthur. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 507 f .; here: p. 507.
^ Entry on Granit, Ragnar Arthur (1900-1991) in the Archives of the Royal Society , London
↑ Member History: Ragnar Granit. American Philosophical Society, accessed August 27, 2018 .

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personal data
SURNAME	Granite, ragnar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Granite, Ragnar Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Finnish-Swedish neurophysiologist and Nobel Prize winner
DATE OF BIRTH	October 30, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH	Riihimäki , Finland
DATE OF DEATH	March 12, 1991
Place of death	Stockholm , Sweden