Died 1991-03-12.
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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 Unive…
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science · Finnish and Swedish neurophysiologist (1900–1991) · neuroscientist · physician · pedagogue · university teacher · physiologist · neurologist · also Ragnar Granit, Ragnar Arthur Granit, Granit
Born 30 October 1900 · Died 12 March 1991 · Q217722
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1991· 2 entries
Granit died on 12 March 1991 in Stockholm at the age of 90.
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1971· 1 entry
Was elected an International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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1967· 5 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries concerning the primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1967).
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Along with Haldan Keffer Hartline and George Wald "for their discoveries concerning the primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye"
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Was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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Together with Hartline and Wald, was awarded specifically "for their discoveries concerning the primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye", recognising his earlier work on retinal physiology rather t
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1960· 2 entries
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1960).
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Granit was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS)
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1953· 1 entry
Awarded Silliman Memorial Lectures (1953).
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1948· 2 entries
Awarded Björkén Prize (1948).
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Awarded Knight of the Order of the Polar Star (1948).
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1946· 1 entry
Received a personal professorship in neurophysiology, which he held until his retirement in 1967
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1941· 1 entry
Granit received Swedish citizenship
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1937· 1 entry
And was elected Swedish member number 912 of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1944
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1935· 1 entry
Awarded Statsrådet Mauritz Hallberg's prize (1935).
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1932· 1 entry
And an invitation to Harvard in 1940, but declined them
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1929· 1 entry
Granit became docent in physiology at the University of Helsinki, acting professor in 1935, and full professor in 1937
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1928· 1 entry
As an organ for the literary avant-garde, and was editor of the magazine Finlands Röda Kors during the 1930s
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1927· 1 entry
Received his licentiate degree and on the same day he also received his doctorate in medicine and surgery
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1926· 1 entry
With the thesis Farbentransformation und Farbenkontrast and defended his thesis in the autumn of that same year, while still a medical candidate
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1918· 1 entry
Awarded Cross of Liberty, 4th Class (1918).
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1900· 1 entry
Born 1900-10-30.
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