Samuel Blum
Samuel Blum · Science & Medicine
Co-invented the ultraviolet excimer laser (IBM, 1981), the basis of LASIK eye surgery; National Inventors Hall of Fame.
1920, New York City, United States — 2013, United States
United States (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, New York)
Samuel Blum is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Co-invented the ultraviolet excimer laser (IBM, 1981), the basis of LASIK eye surgery; National Inventors Hall of Fame.
Samuel E. Blum was an American chemist who, with Rangaswamy Srinivasan and James Wynne at IBM in 1981, discovered that the ultraviolet excimer laser could remove biological tissue cleanly without heat damage—the principle behind LASIK vision-correction surgery. For this work he received the U.S. National Medal of Technology and was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. He was Jewish, the son of a Jewish family in New York.
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Co-invented the ultraviolet excimer laser (IBM, 1981), the basis of LASIK eye surgery; National Inventors Hall of Fame.
Source: geni.com Jewish Inventors project
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