Selig Hecht
Selig Hecht · Science & Medicine
Biophysicist who quantified the physiology of human vision and light detection
1892, Głogów, German Empire (now Poland) — 1947, New York City, USA
Poland · United States
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Selig Hecht was a biophysicist who quantified the physiology of human vision, showing that only a handful of light quanta are needed to trigger the retina's response and advancing the photochemical theory of sight. A professor at Columbia University, he was born into a Jewish family in Głogów and emigrated to New York as a child. He was Jewish.
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Biophysicist who quantified the physiology of human vision and light detection
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