Marc Amsler honor in ophthalmology. Amsler was professor and chief of the Zurich Eye Clinic until 1961. His successor was Rudolf Witmer. He is best known for the Amsler grid test. The Amsler grid was an improvement over the initial work done by the ophthalmologist Edmond Landolt. The grid tests the function of the macula, a part of the retina, so that macular degeneration can be identified. He also contributed to the progress in the understanding of uveitis. Furthermore, he published works on keratoconus. In 1951, Dr. Amsler performed the first corneal transplantation at the Zurich Eye clinic. Marc Amsler Marc Amsler
Margaret Harris Amsler was a professor of Latin and Greek. She graduated with an AB from Baylor University in 1929, in English and French, and then an MA in English literature from Wellesley College in 1931. She then taught at a Texas high school. She attended law school from 1935, graduating with an LLB in 1937; she was the only woman in her class, and graduated in first place. She married her first husband, John Kenneth Gordon in 1933. After they were divorced, she remarried in 1942 to the lawyer Sam H. Amsler, Jr. They had one daughter. She was elected to the