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Name
  
Ignacio Barraquer

Children
  
Jose Barraquer

Role
  
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Died
  
May 13, 1965, Barcelona, Spain

Año Barraquer 50ª Aniversario de su muerte


Ignacio Barraquer (March 25, 1884 – May 13, 1965) was a Spanish ophthalmologist known for his contributions to the advancement of cataract surgery. Barraquer was born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. He was the father of Jose Barraquer, an ophthalmologist known to many as "the father of modern refractive surgery".

Ignacio Barraquer Barraquer received his medical doctorate in 1908 in Barcelona, and upon his father's retirement, was appointed Acting Professor of Ophthalmology at the School of Medicine, held until 1923. He invented many surgical instruments and procedures involving cataract surgery, many of which are named after him; some among them the suction cup that extracts cataracts, and the fine-tunable vacuum-producing apparatus which allowed the removal of the crystalline lens.

Among his other achievements, Barraquer also founded, planned, and designed the Centro de Oftalmologia Barraquer.

References

Ignacio Barraquer Wikipedia


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