Allvar Gullstrand
Academic
1862 – 1930
Who was Allvar Gullstrand?
Allvar Gullstrand was a Swedish ophthalmologist and optician.
Born at Landskrona, Sweden, Gullstrand was professor 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 and for improving the ophthalmoscope and corrective lenses for use after removal of a cataract from the eye.
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, he used his position to block Einstein from receiving a Nobel Prize in Physics for his theory of relativity, which Allvar believed to be wrong.
Gullstrand married Signe Breitholtz in 1885 and died in Stockholm where he was interred at Norra begravningsplatsen.
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- Born
- Jun 5, 1862
Landskrona - Also known as
- Dr. Allvar Gullstrand
- Nationality
- Sweden
- Profession
- Education
- Uppsala University
- Died
- Jul 28, 1930
Stockholm
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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