1. Ragnar Arthur Granit was a Finnish-Swedish scientist 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".
Ragnar Arthur Granit was born on 30 October 1900 in Riihimaki, Finland, at the time part of the Russian Empire, into a Swedish-speaking Finnish family.
Ragnar Granit graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Helsinki in 1927.
In 1941, Ragnar Granit received 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.
Ragnar 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.
Ragnar Granit was professor of neurophysiology at the Karolinska Institute from 1946 to his retirement in 1967.
Ragnar Granit was elected an International Member of the American Philosophical Society in 1954.
In 1960, Ragnar Granit was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society.
Ragnar Granit said that he was a "fifty-fifty" Finnish and Swedish Nobel laureate.
Ragnar Granit was elected an International Member of the United States National Academy of Sciences the following year.
Ragnar Granit died on 12 March 1991 in Stockholm at the age of 90.