Ragnar Granit

Ragnar Arthur Granit ( born October 30, 1900 in Riihimäki, Finland, † March 12, 1991 in Stockholm, Sweden ) was a Finnish- Swedish neurophysiologist and Nobel laureate.

Granite delivered substantial work on the chemical- physiological processes in the retina of the eye.

He was from 1935 to 1940 professor at the University of Helsinki, then at the Swedish Karolinska Institutet. He was also president of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He received in 1967 together with George Wald and Haldane Keffer Hartline received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the study of the physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye.