Ragnar Granit

Ragnar Arthur Granit was a Finnish and Swedish neurophysiologist, born in 1900, who 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 Institute in Stockholm. He was awarded the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine along with Haldan Keffer Hartline and George Wald for discoveries concerning the primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye. He was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1944, a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 1960 and an International Member of the American Philosophical Society in 1954.