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TIL Allvar Gullstrand applied the methods of physical mathematics to the study of optical images and refraction of light in the eye and received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1911. Due to the math in his works, it is lamented there are few ophthalmologists and physiologists who can understand it

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