Allvar Gullstrand

Allvar Gullstrand
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Born	5 June 1862(1862-06-05) Landskrona, Sweden
Died	28 July 1930 (aged 68) Stockholm, Sweden
Nationality	Sweden
Fields	Ophthalmology
Institutions	University of Uppsala
Notable awards	Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1911

Allvar Gullstrand (5 June 1862, – 28 July 1930) was a Swedish ophthalmologist.

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 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 (1862-1946) in 1885 and died in Stockholm where he was interred at Norra begravningsplatsen.

References

• Nobel biography
• Nobel lecture
• Allvar Gullstrand's speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1911

External links

• Nobel stamps

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