Mathematicians and Scientists
- Gustaf Dalén - Swedish inventor and Nobel Prize winner, who continued to make inventions and lead his company despite being blinded in an accident.
- Leonhard Euler - Swiss mathematician and physicist who went almost totally blind at fifty-nine, but his productivity on mathematics did not decrease throughout his life.
- Bernard Morin - topologist from France.
- Abraham Nemeth - Developed Nemeth Braille for blind students in science and math.
- Joseph Plateau - Physicist who went blind at forty-two when he gazed too long at the sun. After his blindness his scientific work diminished, but did not entirely end.
- Lev Pontryagin - Soviet mathematician who went blind at fourteen. He continued mathematical study with the help of his mother Tatyana Andreevna, and made major discoveries in a number of fields of mathematics.
- Nicholas Saunderson - English mathematician who went blind at the age of twelve months, held in high esteem by Isaac Newton.
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