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Ragnar Granit
Ragnar Arthur Granit (October 30, 1900 - March 12, 1991) was a Finnish 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
- Biography of Ragnar Granit at the Nobel Foundation site
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