Allvar gullstrand biography definition

Swedish ophthalmologist and optician

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

Allvar Gullstrand was the son of a prominent physician who was city physician of Landskrona.

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.

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.

Swedish ophthalmologist who received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his research on the mechanics of the human eye, especially the process.

Allvar Gullstrand was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology for his work on dioptrics of the eye.

Gullstrand was.

Allvar Gullstrand (–) is the only ophthalmologist who has been awarded the Nobel Prize for work in ophthalmology.

Allvar Gullstrand was born in in the Swedish town of Landkroma where his father was the principal municipal medical officer.

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