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people who study the human eye
Scientists from a wide range of disciplines study the eye, including neurobiologists, sensory physiologists and biophysicists.
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is an international center for research, education, and tr
aining in biology, biomedicine, and ecology. It has hosted a long and successful effort to unravel the physics and chemistry of vision. 
the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL)
His student, George Wald, identified many of the molecular components of vision and demonstrated the role that Vitamin A plays in detecting light.
He shared Nobel prize with H. Keffer Hartline, who uncovered many of the basic mechanisms of vision.
Other pioneers in vision research at the MBL included Stephen Kuffler, Edward MacNichol, Jr. and MacNichol.
A team of researchers in Florida, New Hampshire, Minnesota and Arizona, led by Dr. Shalesh Kaushal from the University of Florida, are approaching age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the leading eye disease among the Western elderly.
The Collaborative Ocular Melanoma Study (COMS) was supported by the NEI and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), components of the Federal government's National Institutes of Health. The leading scientists, Stuart Fine，Richard Klausner and Paul A. Sieving are now studying choroidal melanoma, a fatal tumor of the eye that arises from pigmented cells of the choroids.
Zhujie (No.27)