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Prize In Medicine And Physiology: Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology for Physiology or Medicine. Sweden's Royal Caroline Institute selected three men to honor with the 1967 Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology for Physiology or Medicine. The award was bestowed "for their discoveries concerning the primary chemical and physiological visual processes in the eye." (1) Ragnar Granit, a Swedish neurophysiologist, taught at the Universities of Pennsylvania and Helsinki, Fin., before he joined the Royal Caroline Institute in 1940; he became the director in 1945. Since the 1920s his work has been in color perception, determining the process of impulses in the complex cell network of the retina. (2)
GRANIT, gra-net', Ragnar Arthur (1900- ), Swedish neurophysiologist, who was awarded the 1967 Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology in physiology or medicine for his work on the physiology of vision. He shared the award with two Americans, George Wald and H. K. Hartline.
Contributions to Science. Granit's work on vision consisted of a series of important investigations, rather than a single momentous discovery. In the early 1930's he was the first to observe inhibition in the retina of the eye.
Henry Jacob Bigelow Medal. The Boston Surgical Society's gold medal for outstanding work in surgery was awarded in 1967 to Charles B. Huggins, director of the Ben May Laboratory for Cancer Research at the University of Chicago. Huggins was awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology for Physiology or Medicine in 1966. |
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