Mikhail Mikhailowitsch Woinow
Mikhail Mikhailowitsch Woinow, surname sometimes spelled as Voinov (1844 - 1875) was a German-based Russian ophthalmologist.
He served as an assistant to Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894) and Otto Becker (1828-1890) at the University of Heidelberg and to Carl Ferdinand von Arlt (1812-1887) in Vienna. Later he established an ophthalmologic practice in Moscow, where he also gave lectures at the university.[1]
In Vienna he conducted pioneer ophthalmometric research with August Leopold von Reuss (1841-1924) that included studies of corneal astigmatism following cataract extraction. The two men are credited as the first to describe exact ophthalmometric observations on "wound astigmatism".[2][3] In addition to work in ophthalmometry, Woinow published a number of papers on subjects such as ametropia, the blind spot, binocular vision, color vision, accommodation, etc.[4]
Selected writings
- Ophthalmometrische Studien. (with August Leopold von Reuss), Vienna 1869.
- Ophthalmometrie. Vienna: A. Holzhausen for W. Braumüller, 1871.
- Über das Verhalten der Doppelbilder bei Augenmuskellähmungen. 1870 (On the behavior of double vision eye muscle paralysis).[5]