Franciscus Donders

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Franciscus Cornelis Donders
Franciscus Cornelis Donders
Franciscus Cornelis Donders
Born May 27, 1818
Tilburg
Died March 24, 1889
Utrecht
Nationality Dutch
Fields ophthalmology
Institutions Utrecht University
Known for eye diseases

Franciscus Cornelis Donders (Tilburg, May 27, 1818 - Utrecht, March 24, 1889) was a 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 eye diseases, directing the Netherlands Hospital for Eye Patients.

He was the one of the founders of the science of ophthalmology (with von Graefe and Helmholtz) and is primarily known for introducing prismatic and cylindrical lenses for treatment of 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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  • ten DOESSCHATE, G (1951), "[The latest works of Franciscus Cornelis Donders.]", Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde (published 1951 Apr 7), 95 (14), pp. 1096–7, PMID 14843224  Check date values in: |publication-date= (help)
  • TEN DOESSCHATE, G (1951), "[The personality of Franciscus Cornelis Donders.]", Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde (published 1951 Nov 17), 95 (46), pp. 3421–41, PMID 14919660  Check date values in: |publication-date= (help)

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