Arnall Patz, M.D., a native of Elberton, Ga., graduated from the Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, in 1945. He served at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center and trained at D.C. General Hospital after World War II. It was there, around 1950, that Dr. Patz noticed the strange association between incubators and the disease…
Bernard Becker, M.D., the leading glaucoma researcher and clinician of his day, didn’t immediately gravitate toward ophthalmology after graduating from Princeton University and Harvard Medical School. He was inducted into the Army as a psychiatrist, but a meeting with the great Jonas Friedenwald and an invitation for Becker to work with him put him on…
Torsten Wiesel, M.D. was born in Uppsala, Sweden in 1924. Dr. Wiesel’s father, Fritz S. Wiesel, was chief psychiatrist and head of Beckomberga Hospital, a mental institution located on the outskirts of Stockholm. He was brought up by his mother, Anna-Lisa, at the hospital and were sent by bus to Whitlockska Samskolan, a coeducational private…
David Hubel, M.D. was born in 1926 in Windsor, Ontario. Dr. Hubel became a pharmacist and achieved some prosperity by inventing the first process for the mass producing of gelatin capsules. His were born and raised in Detroit, Michigan. His father, a chemical engineer, took a job across the Detroit River in Windsor, Ontario, became…
Robert Machemer, M.D. is a native of Germany who received his medical degree in Freiburg, Germany. After a residency in Göttingen, he came to the United States in 1966 for a retina research fellowship at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami, Florida. He subsequently served on the faculty there until 1978 when he accepted…
Norman Ashton, CBE, FRS, D.Sc. was born in London in 1913. He qualified in medicine at King’s College, London and Westminster Hospital Medical School, where, in the Hospital, he served as House Physician, House Surgeon and Senior Medical Officer. He then specialized in Pathology, being appointed Pathologist to the Kent and Canterbury Hospital, followed by…
Lorenz Zimmerman, M.D., Chairman Emeritus, Department of Ophthalmic Pathology, is a revered figure in the world of ophthalmic pathology and clinical ophthalmology. For close to fifty years, this native Washingtonian has brought honor to himself and the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology for his remarkable achievements in ophthalmology. During his career he has authored or…
John E. Dowling, Ph.D., born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, is currently Maria Moors Cabot Professor of Natural Sciences at Harvard University. John is an inspiring and revered leader to all in vision research, and for close to forty years, he has been one of the most influential scientists in the field of retinal research. He…
J. Donald M. Gass, M.D. was born in Montague, Prince Edward Island, Canada in 1928. He received both his undergraduate and medical degrees from Vanderbilt University, where he graduated with honors. He served his residency in ophthalmology at the Wilmer Institute of The Johns Hopkins Hospital and completed a fellowship in ophthalmic pathology at the…