Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1967

Ragnar Granit

Photo: Wilma Björling. Nobel Foundation archive

Prize share: 1/3

Haldan Keffer Hartline

Photo: Rockefeller University. Nobel Foundation archive

Prize share: 1/3

George Wald

Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive.

Prize share: 1/3

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1967 was awarded jointly to Ragnar Granit, Haldan Keffer Hartline and George Wald "for their discoveries concerning the primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye"

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