One of the three men responsible for improving the vision of more than 25 million people worldwide will be on campus Thursday offering a free lecture to all interested in celebration of engineering week.
James Wynne, a co-recipient of the 2013 Russ Prize, will discuss his role in developing LASIK and PRK vision correction surgeries as part of the Stocker Series Lecture presented by the Russ College of Engineering and Technology.
The hour-long lecture will take place at 3:15 p.m. in OU’s Baker University Center Theatre and will be live streamed at:
http://www.ohio.edu/mediaserver/live.cfm?videoid=0da2f2c887c0
Wynne shares the top bioengineering award with Rangaswamy Srinivasan
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who visited campus last October
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and the late Samuel Blum.
The trio received gold medals and $500,000 as part of the biennial Russ Prize.
The international award, comparable to the Nobel Prize, is decided by the national academy of engineering, said Colleen Carow, senior director of communication and identity management.
“We always invite the recipients to give a lecture to benefit our students and the community,” Carow said.
In addition to a university-wide lecture, Wynne will stop by classrooms throughout the day.
Blum, Srinivasan and Wynne are the seventh recipients of the Russ Prize, which was established in 1999.
Previous recipients include the inventors of kidney dialysis, the implantable heart pacemaker and the automated DNA sequencer.
Fritz Russ, a 1944 graduate of the school that now bears his name, started the prize in 1999 with a gift from Fritz and Dolores Russ.
“It’s a real benefit to be able to hear from one of the world’s leading innovators,” Carow said.
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