Karl Lisch (24 July 1907,

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– 5 February 1999,

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) was an

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remembered for describing

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s in 1937.

Biography

Karl Lisch studied medicine at

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, Zurich and

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, graduating in 1931. He worked in university eye clinics in Vienna, Innsbruck and

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, and became the head of the eye department of the hospital in

Wörgl Wörgl () is a city in the Austrian state of Tyrol, in the Kufstein district. It is from the international border with Bavaria, Germany. Population Transport Wörgl is an important railway junction between the line from Innsbruck to Munich, and ...

in 1947. He remained there until he retired in 1980. He received the title Senior Adviser in Medical Affairs from the President of Austria in 1989, the Medal of Honor from the American Neurofibromatosis Society in 1992, and the First Class Cross Honor for Science and the Arts from the Austrian Ministry for Science and the Arts.

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Austrian ophthalmologists 1907 births 1999 deaths 20th-century Austrian physicians Eye color {{Austria-med-bio-stub