Gates Cambridge Scholars' Distinguished Lecture: Professor Joshua Silver gives lecture on adaptive eye technology in the developing world
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Professor Joshua Silver gives his Gates Scholars Distinguished Lecture entitled 'How we do we really bring vision corrective to those that need it in the developing world?'. The lecture was held at the Cambridge Union Society on 3 February 2010.
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| Created: | 2010-04-14 15:07 |
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Gates Cambridge Scholarships
Gates Distinguished Lecture Series |
| Publisher: | Gates Cambridge Trust |
| Copyright: | Gates Cambridge Trust |
| Language: | eng (English) |
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| Keywords: | Joshua; Silver; adaptive; eye; technology; developing; world; Gates Scholars; Distinguished; Lecture; |
| Explicit content: | No |
| Abstract: | Professor Joshua Silver gives his Gates Scholars' Distinguished Lecture entitled 'How we do we really bring vision corrective to those that need it in the developing world?'. The lecture was held at the Cambridge Union Society on 3 February 2010.
Joshua Silver is an atomic physicist and Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford. He became interested in the emerging area of adaptive optics in the mid-1980s. After considering the way our eye-brain adaptive optical system works, Silver suggested that self-refraction with suitable adaptive lens eyeglasses could be a useful procedure for correcting refractive error, after trying such a procedure on himself. |
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