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Rangaswamy Srinivasan

American engineer · India · On the map · Scientists · Born 1929 · age 97

Rangaswamy Srinivasan is a physical chemist and inventor with a 30-year career at IBM Research. He has developed techniques for ablative photodecomposition and used them to contribute to the development of LASIK eye surgery.

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2013Russ PrizeAward2011National Medal of Technology and InnovationAward2004R. W. Wood PrizeAward2002National Inventors Hall of FameAward1998Max Delbrück Prize in Biological PhysicsAward1997ACS Award for Creative InventionAward1929Born28 February 1929

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