LASIK
In 1983, Rangaswamy collaborated with an ophthalmic surgeon to use APD for a surgery of the cornea. This led to development of LASIK. In 1998, Rangaswamy was awarded the Biological Physics Prize by the American Physical Society.
In 2012, Rangaswamy along with two other scientists (James J Wynne and Samuel Blum) of IBM Watson were honored with National Medal of Technology and Innovation by the President of The United States Barack Obama for breakthrough in Excimer laser that enabled LASIK Surgery.
Inducted into the US "Inventor Hall of Fame" in 2002, Srinivasan has spent 30 years at IBM's T J Watson Research Center. He received both bachelor's and master's degrees in science from the University of Madras, in 1949 and 1950. He earned doctorate in physical chemistry at the University of Southern California in 1956. He currently holds 21 US patents.
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