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Allvar Gullstrand

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Swedish ophthalmologist and 1911 Nobel laureate in medicine for his work on the optics of the eye. A self-taught mathematician, he served on the physics committee in the 1920s and argued forcefully against giving Einstein the prize for relativity, a theory he understood imperfectly but distrusted on principle. His objections shaped the cautious 1922 citation.

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