The American Institute of Physics (AIP) will honour Indian scientist Dr. Rangaswamy Srinivasan on Monday, October 27th 2003. Dr. Srinivasan who has already been inducted into the National Inventors’ Hall of Fame is the inventor of a process that led to the laser eye surgery procedure now known as LASIK (Laser-Assisted In Situ Keratomileusis). The surgery has been hugely successful and is estimated to have been performed on about 2.5 million people in the United States itself.
A native of Chennai, Srinivasan came to the United States in 1953 for his Ph D at the University of Southern California. He continued with a post-doctoral work at the California Institute of Technology and the University of Rochester. For the next 30 years, he worked with IBM’s TJ Watson Research Centre in New York.
During his years at IBM, Srinivasan and his group of researchers published 130 scientific articles and obtained 22 patents on Ablative Photodecomposition (APD). Srinivasan’s own consulting company, UVTech Associates, is currently advising a German firm on fertility problems.
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