Yesterday's google doodle

byreanna1

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9 years ago

Yesterday I was at the hospital because I had to do a bone scan! My reasults were great if you ask so I was not able to present the google doodle!

Yesterday's google doodle has to do with the 181 birthday of Ferdinand Monoyer. Who was Ferdinand Monoyer? We all know him but we do not know him! What I mean is that we all have used his charter but we do not know anything about him! So let's find out!

Ferdinand Monoyer was a French ophthalmologist, known for the invention of the visual acuity panel, the Monoyer chart in 1872, which is still being used by colleagues around the world.

The charter measures the distance you need to be able to read distinct characters. That is, the patient is asked to read letters and numbers, the size of which is constantly diminishing. Depending on the results, the ophthalmologist makes a diagnosis of whether or not the patient needs glasses or not.

It is worth mentioning that he included his name in the chart. You can observe it by reading the first left letters from the bottom up (except the last line with the two letters).

Ferdinand Monoyer was born in France. He grew up in Lyon and in 1871 he studied at the University of Strasbourg.

Monoyer was originally from Alsace (the historical region of eastern France) from his mother's side and was the son of a French military doctor. He served as Deputy Professor of Medical Physics at the Medical School of the University of Strasbourg in 1871. Later, he became director of the Ophthalmology Clinic of the Medical School of Nancy University where he served from 1872 to 1877. He was also a professor of medical physics at the Lyon School of Medicine From 1877 to 1909. He returned a few years later to Lyon where he died there at the age of 76, in 1912.