Dr. Ernir K. Snorrason (born Reykjavík, March 17, 1944, died Reykjavík, National Hospital, April 26, 2012), was a psychiatrist and neuropsychologist, a co-founder of DeCODE genetics and two pharmaceutical companies, and a novelist and poet.
Ernir was the son of Snorri Jónsson, a merchant, and Björg G. Kristjánsdóttir, a housewife.
He received a licence for general medical practice in Iceland in 1988, in Norway in 1993, and license as a specialist in psychiatry in 1994.
Ernir founded the development company Taugagreiningar hf; was a co-founder of deCODE genetics in 1994; and founded the British drug-discovery company Hunter-Fleming in 1999, sitting on its board as director of development.
His last novel, which was partly about the 2008–11 Icelandic financial crisis, unusually was published not only after his death but actually on the day of his funeral (May 8, 2012).