Ragnar granite
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 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Ragnar Granit in the catalog of the German National Library
- Information from the Nobel Foundation on the 1967 award ceremony for Ragnar Granit (English)
- Ragnar Granite Foundation
- Ragnar Granite Institute
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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 |