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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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ragnar Granit has received more than 119,404 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia. Ragnar Granit is the 123rd most popular physician (down from 105th in 2019), the 26th most popular biography from Finland (down from 20th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Finnish Physician.

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

Memorability Metrics

  • 120k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 63.10

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 54

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.85

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.90

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Ragnar Granit ranks 123 out of 726. Before him are Santorio Santorio, Erasistratus, Francis Peyton Rous, Franz Joseph Gall, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, and John Eccles. After him are Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Johannes Peter Müller, Dickinson W. Richards, Eduard Bloch, Nicolaes Tulp, and John Snow.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Ragnar Granit ranks 38. Before him are Karl Wolff, Pak Hon-yong, Prince Aimone, Duke of Aosta, Chiune Sugihara, Walther Wenck, and Mahavatar Babaji. After him are Julien Green, Gladwyn Jebb, Anna Seghers, W. Edwards Deming, Thomas Wolfe, and Howard H. Aiken. Among people deceased in 1991, Ragnar Granit ranks 31. Before him are Margot Fonteyn, Henri Lefebvre, David Lean, Natalia Ginzburg, Max Frisch, and Gunnar Gren. After him are Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal, Jean Tinguely, Martha Graham, Claudio Arrau, Wilhelm Kempff, and Stan Getz.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Ragnar Granit ranks 26 out of 751. Before him are Pehr Evind Svinhufvud (1861), Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (1832), Vissarion Belinsky (1811), Arto Paasilinna (1942), Johan Gadolin (1760), and Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865). After him are Linus Torvalds (1969), Kyösti Kallio (1873), Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804), George Gaynes (1917), Otto Wille Kuusinen (1881), and Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia (1917).

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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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