Purkyně, Jan Evangelista

Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8071-7" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8071-7</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8071-7" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-1-4419-8071-7</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Purkyně, Jan Evangelista
Original language description
Purkyně was born in the Kingdom of Bohemia (then part of the Austrian monarchy, now Czech Republic.) In 1818, he graduated from Charles University in Prague with a degree in medicine, where he was appointed a Professor of Physiology. He discovered the Purkinje effect, the human eye's much reduced sensitivity to dim red light compared to dim blue light. He published two volumes, Observations and Experiments Investigating the Physiology of Senses and New Subjective Reports about Vision, which contributed to the emergence of the science of experimental psychology. He created the world's first Department of Physiology at the University of Breslau in Prussia (now Wrocław, Poland) in 1839 and the world's first official physiology laboratory in 1842. Here he was a founder of the Literary-Slav Society. The Purkinje effect (sometimes called the Purkinje shift or dark adaptation) is the tendency for the peak luminance sensitivity of the human eye to shift toward the blue end of the color spectrum at low illumination levels. The effect is named after his name Purkinje effect.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2016
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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