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After studying ophthalmology in Uppsala, Vienna and Stockholm, Gullstrand was initially employed as a freelance lecturer in Stockholm.
In 1891 he became a full-time salaried lecturer, and in 1894 Professor of Ophthalmology in Uppsala University, a post which he held until 1913.
In 1911 he received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his work on the dioptric apparatus of the eye performed jointly with Moritz von Rohr, with which they placed the correction of refractive errors in the eye by means of eyeglasses on a strictly scientific basis.
In 1913 a chair of Physiological and Physical Optics was specially created for him at the University of Uppsala. He received numerous honorary doctorates; in 1928 the German Society of Ophthalmology awarded him the Graefe medal, a prize that is only presented every ten years.
In 1899 Allvar Gullstrand began his research work on corneal astigmatism. He developed a general theory on astigmatism and the theory of monochromatic aberration. In optics, he expanded on the theory of surfaces and ray systems. He also devised ”Gullstrand’s formula” for the calculation of the total refracting power of optical systems:
D=D1+D2-δD1·D2 | |
| Allvar Gullstrand the Nobel prize laureate |
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