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|birth_date        = May 27, 1818
|birth_place       = [[Tilburg]]
|death_date        = March 24, 1889 
|death_place       =[[Utrecht (city)|Utrecht]]
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|field             = [[ophthalmology]]
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|known_for         = [[List of eye diseases|eye diseases]]
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	'''Franciscus Cornelis Donders''' ([[Tilburg]], May 27, 1818 - [[Utrecht (city)|Utrecht]], March 24, 1889) was a [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[ophthalmologist]] and medical scientist who did pioneering work on animal and vegetable heat, among many other things. He was a professor in Physiology in Utrecht from 1847 and was internationally regarded as an authority on [[List of eye diseases|eye diseases]], directing the Netherlands Hospital for Eye Patients.

He was the one of the founders of the science of  [[ophthalmology]] (with [[Albrecht von Gräfe|von Graefe]] and [[Helmholtz]]) and is primarily known for introducing [[prism (optics)|prismatic]] and cylindrical lenses for treatment of [[astigmatism (eye)|astigmatism]].

Donders also was the first to use differences in human [[reaction time]] to infer differences in cognitive processing. This concept is now one of the central tenets of [[cognitive psychology]]— while [[mental chronometry]] is not a topic in itself, it is one of the most common tools used for making inferences about processes such as learning, memory, and attention.

==References==
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*{{Citation
|pmid = 2658623
|last=Newell
|first=F W
|publication-date=1989 Jun 15
|year=1989
|title=Franciscus Cornelis Donders (1818-1889).
|volume=107
|issue=6
|periodical=Am. J. Ophthalmol.
|pages=691–3
|month = Jun
|author = Newell, Fw
|issn = 0002-9394
|journal = American journal of ophthalmology
}}
*{{Citation
|pmid = 13628947
|last=DUKE-ELDER
|first=S
|publication-date=1959 Feb
|year=1959
|title=Franciscus Cornelis Donders.
|volume=43
|issue=2
|periodical=The British journal of ophthalmology
|pages=65–8
|month = Feb
|author = Duke-Elder, S
|pmc = 509756
|journal = The British journal of ophthalmology
|doi = 10.1136/bjo.43.2.65
}}
*{{Citation
|pmid = 14843224
|last=ten DOESSCHATE
|first=G
|publication-date=1951 Apr 7
|year=1951
|title=[The latest works of Franciscus Cornelis Donders.]
|volume=95
|issue=14
|periodical=Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde
|pages=1096–7
}}
*{{Citation
|pmid = 14919660
|last=TEN DOESSCHATE
|first=G
|publication-date=1951 Nov 17
|year=1951
|title=[The personality of Franciscus Cornelis Donders.]
|volume=95
|issue=46
|periodical=Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde
|pages=3421–41
}}
==External links==
* B. Theunissen. [http://www.historyofscience.nl/author.cfm?RecordId=2 Franciscus Cornelis Donders 1818-1889], F.C. Donders: turning refracting into science, @ History of science and scholarship in the Netherlands.
* [http://vlp.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/people/data?id=per165 Picture, biography, bibliography and digitized sources] in the [[Virtual Laboratory]] of the [[Max Planck Institute for the History of Science]]
* P. Eling,  [http://www.thuisinbrabant.nl/biografieen.asp?ccidentifier=617&ccSortorder=title Donders, Frans (1818-1889)], Geneeskundige en fysioloog.
* Edwin Maes, [http://www.dodenakkers.nl/artikelen/grafdonders.html Professor dr. Franciscus Cornelis Donders (Tilburg 27-5-1818, Utrecht 24-3-1889)] Gravesite of Franciscus Donders.

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[[Category:Ophthalmologists]]
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[[Category:Dutch physicians]]
[[Category:Dutch physiologists]]
[[Category:People from Tilburg]]
[[Category:People from Utrecht (city)]]
[[Category:Utrecht University faculty]]
[[Category:Foreign Members of the Royal Society]]

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