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The purpose of the Foundation
It is the purpose of the Foundation to promote on international level the basic and applied research of Bioelectromagnetism and
Biomedical Engineering, their international education and other development.
To implement its purpose, the Foundation supports financially the Ragnar Granit Institute and awards grants for Finnish and foreign researchers and
research institutes. In addition, the Foundation supports scientific publishing.
Founding Members
 Academy of Finland
University of Helsinki
Nobelinstitute for Neurophysiology, Karolinska institutet
University of Oxford
University of Pennsylvania
In addition, Ministry of Education has participated in creating the Founding Capital of the Foundation.
Professor Ragnar Granit
Professor Ragnar Granit was born in Helsinki on October 30th, 1900.
He received his education in medicine at University of Helsinki and the MD degree from there in 1926.
He served as Professor of Physiology at University of Helsinki 1937-1940.
In 1940 he was invited to Nobelinstitut for Neurophysiology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
There he served as Professor of Physiology from 1945 to 1967 when he retired. Thereafter on the same year he received the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine together with Haldan K. Hartline and George Wald from that work which he had made at
the Institute of Physiology, University of Helsinki before moving to Sweden. He could not receive the Nobel Prize earlier
because, when in office, he was member of the Nobel Committee.
Professor Ragnar Granit died on March 12, 1991 and is buried to Korppoo, Finland.
For more information, please contact:
Chairman of the Board
Professor Jaakko Malmivuo
Ragnar Granit Foundation
Meritullinkatu 16 A 5
00170 Helsinki
Finland
 
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