biography
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Granit, Ragnar (Arthur)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1900–91)
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| biography:
| Physiologist, born in Helsinki, Finland. He studied at Helsinki University, and after working at the universities of Pennsylvania and Oxford (1928–31) became professor of neurophysiology at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm (1940–67), and a Swedish national. He pioneered the study of the neurophysiology of vision by the use of microelectrodes, and shared the 1967 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. |
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