Granit worked as an editor ofStudentbladet [sv] from 1923 to 1926, contributor to the first issues of the magazineQuosego and editor of the magazineFinlands Röda Kors during the 1930s. During this time, Granit also published several articles and works of fiction. Granit was also a member of theNylands Nation, where he was a curator, and later ofFolkhälsan and theMannerheim League for Child Welfare.[2]
Granit initially studied philosophy atÅbo Akademi University, but later switched tracks to medicine. Granit graduated with his bachelor's degree from the Faculty of Medicine at theUniversity of Helsinki in 1926 with the thesisFarbentransformation und Farbenkontrast. In fall of that same year, Granit defended histhesis. In 1927 he received hislicentiate degree and on the same day he also received his doctorate in medicine and surgery.[2]
In 1940, when Finland became the target of a massiveSoviet attack during theWinter War, Granit sought refuge – and peaceful surroundings for his studies and research work – inStockholm, the capital of neighbouringSweden, at the age of 40. In 1941, Granit receivedSwedish citizenship, which made it possible for him to live and continue with his work without having to worry about theContinuation War, which lasted in Finland until 1944. Granit was proud of hisFinland-Swedish roots and remained a patriotic Finland-Swede throughout his life, maintaining homes in both Finland and Sweden after theMoscow Armistice ended the Continuation War and secured Finnish independence.
Granit died on 12 March 1991 in Stockholm at the age of 90. Granit and his wife, the baroness Marguerite Emma Bruun (1902–1991), who he married in 1929, were buried in a church cemetery on the Finnish island ofKorpo.[18][2]
^Ragnar Granit in theNational Biography of Finland: "There have since been occasional arguments about how many of the observations that led to the Nobel Prize were made only after Granit arrived in Sweden and about whether he is 'a Finnish or a Swedish Nobel laureate'. Granit commented diplomatically on the matter by saying "fifty-fifty". When he received his Nobel Prize, Granit was indeed a Swede by citizenship; but a significant amount of his experimental work had been done in Oxford and Helsinki, and even in Stockholm his colleagues were still mostly Finns."
