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Ragnar Granit

1900 - 1991

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Ragnar Arthur Granit (30 October 1900 – 12 March 1991) 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". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ragnar Granit is the 87th most popular physician (up from 123rd in 2019), the 16th most popular biography from Finland (up from 26th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Finnish Physician.

Ragnar Granit is most famous for his artwork "The Scream."

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Ragnar Granit ranks 87 out of 726. Before him are Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Cyril of Jerusalem, Walter Rudolf Hess, Hua Tuo, and Karl Brandt. After him are Herophilos, Jacques Rogge, Theodor Morell, Corneille Heymans, Harvey Cushing, and Bernardino of Siena.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Ragnar Granit ranks 30. Before him are Urho Kekkonen, Adolf Dassler, Jacques Prévert, Maria of Yugoslavia, Sándor Márai, and Richard Kuhn. After him are Alfred Newman, Hans Fritzsche, James Hilton, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Jan Oort, and Kurt Weill. Among people deceased in 1991, Ragnar Granit ranks 21. Before him are Graham Greene, John Bardeen, Miles Davis, Frank Capra, Marcel Lefebvre, and Lazar Kaganovich. After him are Soichiro Honda, Oona O'Neill, Margot Fonteyn, David Lean, Max Frisch, and Arno Breker.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Ragnar Granit ranks 16 out of 751. Before him are Urho Kekkonen (1900), Artturi Ilmari Virtanen (1895), Sauli Niinistö (1948), Juho Kusti Paasikivi (1870), Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (1832), and Mika Waltari (1908). After him are Johan Gadolin (1760), Risto Ryti (1889), Pehr Evind Svinhufvud (1861), Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865), Aki Kaurismäki (1957), and Mikael Agricola (1510).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Finland

Among physicians born in Finland, Ragnar Granit ranks 2. Before him are Elias Lönnrot (1802). After him are Anders Chydenius (1729), Erik Adolf von Willebrand (1870), Arvo Ylppö (1887), and Aarne Pohjonen (1886).

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