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Ragnar Granit

Finnish scientist

Born on: October 30, 1900
Died on: March 12, 1991
Aged: 90 years 133 days (1084 months)
Birth Sign: Scorpio

 

Ragnar Granit

Ragnar Arthur Granit was a Finnish and Swedish neurophysiologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1967 along with Haldan Keffer Hartline and George Wald "for their discoveries concerning the primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye".

Granit carried out fundamental research on the retina and the physiological mechanisms of colour vision at the University of Helsinki, and later investigated the neural control of movement at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm.


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