100 years of the visual cycle. Journal Articles uri icon

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abstract

  • One--hundred years have passed since Franz Boll and Willy Kühne first characterized rhodopsin and discovered the visual pigment cycle. Some of the events and individuals of that period are described, and color photographs are presented to show the appearance of rhodopsin in the living retina.

publication date

  • 1978