Ragnar Granit
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Ragnar Arthur Granit (October 30, 1900, Helsinki, Finland - March 12, 1991, Stockholm, Sweden) was a Finnish-born Swedish scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1967, along with Haldan Keffer Hartline and George Wald. He was a 1927 graduate of the University of Helsinki Faculty of Medicine. In 1940, he became a Swedish citizen.
Granit said that his Nobel Prize "belongs fifty-fifty to Finland and Sweden".
External links
- Ragnar Granit institute at the Tampere University of Technology (http://www.rgi.tut.fi/)
- Biography of Ragnar Granit at the Nobel Foundation site (http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1967/granit-bio.html)