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| name         = Allvar Gullstrand
| image        = Allvar Gullstrand.jpg
| image_size   = 180px
| birth_date   = {{birth date|1862|6|5|df=y}}
| birth_place  = [[Landskrona]], [[Sweden]]
| death_date   = {{death date and age|1930|7|28|1862|7|5|df=y}}
| death_place  = [[Stockholm]], [[Sweden]]
| nationality  = [[Sweden]]
| field        = [[Ophthalmology]]
| workplaces   = [[University of Uppsala]]
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| prizes       = [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] in 1911
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'''Allvar Gullstrand''' (5 June 1862, – 28 July 1930) was a [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[ophthalmologist]].

Born at [[Landskrona]], [[Sweden]], Gullstrand was professor (1894–1927) successively of [[ophthalmology|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 (eye)|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. <ref>[http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/barany1]</ref>

Gullstrand married Signe Breitholtz (1862-1946) in 1885 and died in Stockholm where he was interred at [[Norra begravningsplatsen]].

==References==
*[http://nobelprize.org/medicine/laureates/1911/gullstrand-bio.html Nobel biography]
*[http://nobelprize.org/medicine/laureates/1911/gullstrand-lecture.html Nobel lecture]
*[http://nobelprize.org/medicine/laureates/1911/gullstrand-speech.html Allvar Gullstrand's speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1911]
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==External links==
*[http://nobelprize.org/nobel/stamps/1971.html Nobel stamps]

{{Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Laureates 1901-1925}}

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| DATE OF BIRTH     = 5 June 1862
| PLACE OF BIRTH    = [[Landskrona]], [[Sweden]]
| DATE OF DEATH     = 28 July 1930
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