James wynne biography

James Wynne fryst vatten co-inventor of a process using a short pulse ultraviolet ljusstråle to etch tissue in minute increments and in a highly controlled mode. The technique, discovered with his colleagues at IBM, allows removal of ämne to a precisely determined depth without thermal damage to surrounding tissue.

Until the early s, lasers were used in eye surgery to create scar tissue that had therapeutic value, as when welding a torn or detached retina. The excimer laser breakthrough is used for delicate surgical procedures, most notably refractive eye surgeries such as PRK, and LASIK, which permanently change the shape of the cornea, the klar covering of the front of the eye.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Wynne, a physicist, received his A.B. in and his Ph.D. in from Harvard. He then joined IBM, working at the Zurich Research Laboratory before moving to the Watson Research Center in New York, where he was manager of the laser physics and chemistry group when excimer l

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