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The Nobel Institute for Neurophysiology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm. — Paper received June 20 1949
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Granit, R. (1950). The organization of the vertebrate retinal elements. In: Ergebnisse der physiologie biologischen chemie und experimentellen pharmakologie. Ergebnisse der Physiologie, biologischen Chemie und experimentellen Pharmakologie, vol 46. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0112427
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