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The memorial plate of Nobelist Ragnar Granit was unveiled in Helsinki, Tehtaankatu 4, on Tuesday, the 10th of December, 2002.
That is the day when the Nobel Prizes are awarded. Ragnar Granit did live in that house with his family in 1933 - 1940.
The unveiling address was given by Rector of University of Helsinki, Dr. Kari Raivio.
Ragnar Granit studied medicine in the University of Helsinki and defended his doctoral thesis in 1926.
The topic of his thesis was the principle of colour vision. In his studies he measured the bioelectric responses
of light of different colour from the retina of frog.
He was professor in physiology in the University of Helsinki in 1937 - 1940.
In 1940 Ragnar Granit moved to the Karoline Institute in Stockholm as researcher. He did serve there as professor in 1945 - 1967,
when he retired. Due to his position he was member of the Nobel-committee and could not award the Nobel Prize to himself.
He received the prize after his retirement. He received the Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology exactly 35 years earlier
in 10.12.1967 and shared it with the researchers H. Keffer Hartline and George Wald. The prize was awarded to him primarily
from that research which he had made in Finland at the University of Helsinki at the Institute of Physiology before he did move to Sweden.
Ragnar Granit did keep contiguously contact to Finland after moving to Stockholm. He did read regularly the Swedish newspaper
Hufvudstadsbladet, which is published in Helsinki, and he did spend his summers in his summer village in Korppoo.
The Ragnar Granit memorial plate was prepared by the Ragnar Granit Foundation.
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