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Swedish ophthalmologist and optician

Allvar Gullstrand (5 June 1862 – 28 July 1930) was a Swedishophthalmologist and optician.

Life

Born at Landskrona, Sweden, Gullstrand was professor (1894–1927) successively of eye therapy and of optics at the University of Uppsala.

He applied the methods of physical mathematics to the study of optical images and of the refraction of light in the eye. For this work, he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1911.

Allvar Gullstrand – Biographical - NobelPrize.org

Gullstrand is noted also for his research on astigmatism^[1] and for improving the ophthalmoscope and corrective lenses for use after removal of a cataract from the eye.

Gullstrand married Signe Breitholtz (1862–1946) in 1885.

He was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1905, and served on the Academy's Prize Committee for Physics.

While serving on the committee in 1921, he used his position to block Albert Einstein, whose 14 nominations were far more than Allvar Gullstrand, MD History of Retina ZAXI