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Ragnar Granit was a scientist born on October 30, 1900, and died on March 12, 1991. He is recognized in the Nobel Laureates and Nobel Medicine collections, indicating he received a Nobel Prize. His work is also acknowledged in the Royal Society and American Academy Arts Sciences collections.
Granit authored several works, including *Die Elektrophysiologie der Netzhaut und des Sehnerven*, *Hur det kom sig*, *Utur stubbotan rot*, *Reflex control of posture and movement*, and *Receptors and sensory perception*. While one source lists five works, another records a total of fifteen. His contributions are referenced by 328 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 15 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, Nobel Prize, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1900
- Works
- 15
Top works
- Die Elektrophysiologie der Netzhaut und des Sehnerven
- Hur det kom sig
- Utur stubbotan rot
- Reflex control of posture and movement
- Receptors and sensory perception
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- 2021 ESC/EACTS Guidelines for the management of valvular heart disease
· 2021 · cited 5,001x
- Institutions and the Resource Curse
· 2006 · cited 1,661x
- Atomic-scale friction of a tungsten tip on a graphite surface
· 1987 · cited 1,606x
- Electric Contacts
· 1967 · cited 1,444x
- Study of Moderately Rapid Chemical Exchange Reactions by Means of Nuclear Magnetic Double Resonance
· 1963 · cited 1,075x
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1967
“for their discoveries concerning the primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye”
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Encyclopedic overview
Ragnar Arthur Granit ForMemRS (30 October 1900 – 12 March 1991) 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 University of Helsinki, and later investigated the neural control of movement at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm.
Early life and education
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