Ragnar Granit's Birth Card: The 5 of Hearts

In the record

Ragnar Arthur Granit (30 October 1900 – 12 March 1991) was a Finnish and Swedish neurophysiologist 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". The birth-card coordinate for October 30 is the 5 of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1967 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1967 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries concerning the primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye

The 5 of Hearts coordinate

Ragnar Granit's birthday maps to the 5 of Hearts (The Restless Heart). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on Ragnar Granit. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You let love change shape without using motion as a way out of being seen.

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Ragnar Granit in the public record

Granit carried out fundamental research on the retina and the physiological mechanisms of colour vision at the University of Helsinki, and later investigated the neural control of movement at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. Ragnar Arthur Granit was born on 30 October 1900 in Riihimäki, Finland, at the time part of the Russian Empire, into a Swedish-speaking Finnish family whose roots in Korpo in the Åboland archipelago went back generations. His parents were the forester Arthur Granit and Albertina Helena (Bertie) Malmberg. Granit was raised in Oulunkylä, a suburb of the Finnish capital of Helsinki, and attended the Svenska normallyceum in Helsinki. He spent his childhood and youth summers in Korpo, where he sailed and fished with his cousins Lars-Ivar Ringbom, later an art historian, Anders Ringbom, later a professor of analytical chemistry, and Nils-Erik Ringbom, later a composer and intendent of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. Granit grew up in a milieu more oriented towards literature and the arts than the natural sciences. Among his friends and classmates were the artist Torger Enckell and his brothers Olof Enckell, later a professor of Swedish literature, and Rabbe Enckell, who became an author and artist. At Svenska normallyceum, Granit participated in a literary discussion club led by the poet Gunnar Björling.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Ragnar Granit (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the 5 of Hearts

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Ragnar Arthur Granit was born on 30 October 1900 in Riihimäki, Finland, at the time part of the Russian Empire, into a Swedish-speaking Finnish family whose roots in Korpo in the Åboland archipelago went back generations.

Paired on relationship and feeling — the domain ♥ governs in this system. Markers in the record: family.

Also on the record

1. He worked as editor of Studentbladet from 1923 to 1926, contributed to the first issues of the magazine Quosego, founded in 1928 as an organ for the literary avant-garde, and was editor of the magazine Finlands Röda Kors during the 1930s.
2. During this time, Granit also published several articles and works of fiction.
3. Granit was also a member of the Nylands Nation, where he was a curator, and later of Folkhälsan and the Mannerheim League for Child Welfare.
4. Granit initially studied philosophy at Åbo Akademi University, where his studies included psychology, an area that he later said had interested him greatly.

Other laureates with this card

• Daniel Nathans — 1978 Physiology or Medicine
• Dickinson W. Richards — 1956 Physiology or Medicine
• Edward C. Prescott — 2004 Economic Sciences
• Gerhard Domagk — 1939 Physiology or Medicine
• José Ramos-Horta — 1996 Peace
• Leland Hartwell — 2001 Physiology or Medicine
• Russell A. Hulse — 1993 Physics
• Sir Norman Angell — 1933 Peace
• Theodor W. Hänsch — 2005 Physics

FAQ

What is Ragnar Granit's birth card?

The 5 of Hearts. October 30 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict a Nobel Prize?

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Where do Ragnar Granit's dates come from?

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