Ragnar Granit

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Ragnar Granit
Ragnar Arthur Granit c. 1956
Born
Ragnar Arthur Granit

(1900-10-30)30 October 1900
Riihimäki, Finland, Russian Empire
Died12 March 1991(1991-03-12) (aged 90)
Stockholm, Sweden
CitizenshipRussian Empire (1900-1917)
Finnish (1917–1941)
Swedish (1941–1991)
Alma materUniversity of Helsinki
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Karolinska Institutet

Ragnar Arthur Granit

chemical visual processes in the eye".[7][8][9][10]

Early life and education

Ragnar Arthur Granit was born on 30 October 1900 in

Swedish-speaking Finnish family. Granit was raised in Oulunkylä, a suburb of the Finnish capital of Helsinki, and attended the Svenska normallyceum
in Helsinki.

Granit graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Helsinki in 1927.

Career and research

In 1940, when Finland became the target of a massive

Swedish citizenship, which made it possible for him to live and continue with his work without having to worry about the Continuation War, which lasted in Finland until 1944. Granit was proud of his Finnish-Swedish roots and remained a patriotic Finnish-Swede throughout his life, maintaining homes in both Finland and Sweden after the Moscow Armistice
ended the Continuation War and secured Finnish independence.

Granit was professor of neurophysiology at the Karolinska Institute from 1946 to his retirement in 1967.[11]

Awards and honors

Granit was elected an International Member of the

Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS).[1]

In 1967 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.[10] Granit said that he was a "fifty-fifty" Finnish and Swedish Nobel laureate.[13] He was elected an International Member of the United States National Academy of Sciences the following year.[14] In 1971, he was elected an International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[15]

Photograph of the Finnish/Swedish Nobel prize winner Ragnar Granit receiving the prize from the King of Sweden, Gustaf VI Adolf

Death

Granit died on 12 March 1991 in Stockholm at the age of 90. Granit and his wife Marguerite, who died the same year, were buried in a church cemetery on the Finnish island of Korpo.[citation needed]

References

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  10. ^ a b "Ragnar Granit - Biographical". Nobel.se. 12 March 1991. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  11. ^ "Ragnar Granit Seura - Ragnar Granit Sällskapet". Ragnar Granit Foundation. 28 March 2012. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
    "Ragnar Granit Institute". Rgi.fi. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  12. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Archived from the original on 23 January 2023. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
  13. National Biography of Finland
    : "There have since been occasional arguments about how many of the observations that led to the Nobel Prize were made only after Granit arrived in Sweden and about whether he is 'a Finnish or a Swedish Nobel laureate'. Granit commented diplomatically on the matter by saying "fifty-fifty". When he received his Nobel Prize, Granit was indeed a Swede by citizenship; but a significant amount of his experimental work had been done in Oxford and Helsinki, and even in Stockholm his colleagues were still mostly Finns."
  14. ^ "Ragnar Granit". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
  15. ^ "Ragnar Arthur Granit". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
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