11 Facts About Gerhard Meyer-Schwickerath

Gerhard Rudolph Edmund Meyer-Schwickerath was a German ophthalmologist, university lecturer and researcher.

Gerhard Meyer-Schwickerath is known as the father of light coagulation which was the predecessor to many eye surgeries.

Shortly after the war, Gerhard Meyer-Schwickerath moved to Hamburg, where he worked as an assistant physician at the University of Hamburg-Eppendorf's eye clinic until 1952.

From 1959 to his retirement in 1985, Gerhard Meyer-Schwickerath served as the Director of the Ophthalmology Center at the Essen University Hospital.

Gerhard Meyer-Schwickerath was an honorary member and president of the German Ophthalmological Society.

Gerhard Meyer-Schwickerath examined many patients whose retinas were damaged following total solar eclipse of 9 July 1945.

Gerhard Meyer-Schwickerath noticed that the retinal scars were the result of surface diathermy.

In 1945, after the war and graduation, Gerhard Meyer-Schwickerath married 22-year-old Berta Steinbicker in Munster.

Gerhard Meyer-Schwickerath received numerous awards and honorary doctorate different universities.

Gerhard Meyer-Schwickerath's name was proposed for the Nobel Prize three times, but he did not receive it.

Gerhard Meyer-Schwickerath regarded his greatest prize of the Order Pour le Merite for science and the arts.