Jurriaan ten Doesschate (

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, October 31, 1912 –

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, November 3, 1977) was a Dutch

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and medical scientist, who specialized in physiological optics.N.M.J. Schweitzer, ”Ter gedachtenis aan prof. dr. Jurriaan ten Doesschate.” ''Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde'' 121, 49 (1977), p. 1983.

Biography

The son of ophthalmologist and

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Gezienus ten Doesschate Gezienus (or Gesinus) ten Doesschate (11 August 1885, Zwolle – 9 March 1965, Utrecht) was a Dutch ophthalmologist, amateur painter and historian. He was active as an amateur painter in Utrecht under the pseudonym Thomas Denier. He had good con ...

and of linguist Amelia Hermina Henrietta Kortebosch, he attended the Municipal Gymnasium in Utrecht before studying medicine in the same city (1930–38). Despite (or perhaps because) he lost an eye in a youthful accident, ten Doesschate followed in the footsteps of his father. He established an ophthalmological practice in

in 1942, the same year in which he obtained his doctorate in medicine with a dissertation on “Physiologisch-optische beschouwingen betreffende de visueele beoordeling van Röntgenphotogrammen” (Physiological-optical aspects of the visual assessment of radiographs). Two years earlier, he had married Anna Aleida Ameling, a fellow medical student at the

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. Together they had four children. In 1949, he became chef de clinique of the Ooglijdersgasthuis (Netherlands Hospital for Eye Patients), which had been founded by

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in 1858. Ten years later, he succeeded H.J.M. Weve as director of that hospital, a function that was coupled with a professorship in

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at the

medical faculty. In 1964-65, ten Doesschate was awarded the Netherlands Visiting Professorship at the

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in Ann Arbor, established in 1950. Here he collaborated with Mathew Alpern, a physiologist in the Vision Research Laboratory at the university's Medical School. Together they worked on the physiology of

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and published a number of articles (see bibliography below). A

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, diagnosed and removed in 1970, severely reduced his vision and eventually necessitated his early retirement. He died in 1977 in a car accident.

Bibliography

Significant papers

* ten Doesschate, J., 1942. Physiologisch-optische beschouwingen betreffende de visueele beoordeeling van röntgenphotogrammen... * ten Doesschate, J. & Alpern, M., 1967a. Effect of photoexcitation of the two retinas on pupil size. Journal of neurophysiology, 30(3), pp. 562–576. *ten Doesschate, J. & Alpern, M., 1967b. Influence of asymmetrical photoexcitation of the two retinas on pupil size. Journal of neurophysiology, 30(3), pp. 577–585. * ten Doesschate, J. & Alpern, M., 1965. Response of the pupil to steady-state retinal illumination: Contribution by cones. Science. Available at: http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/1965-14214-001 ccessed October 31, 2012

References

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