Gordon Norrie

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Gordon Norrie (May 6, 1855 in

He studied medicine at the University of Copenhagen. Originally trained as a surgeon, his interest later turned to ophthalmology, where he specialized in treatment of the blind. From 1903 to 1938 he worked as an ophthalmologist at the ophthalmology clinic of the Royal Danish Institute for the Blind, later the Statens Øjenklinik (the National Eye Clinic).

He is associated with the eponymous "

The Gordon Norrie Centre for Genetic Eye Diseases at the National Eye Clinic in Hellerup, Copenhagen was named in his honor. The National Eye Clinic is now part of the Kennedy Center in Glostrup, another Copenhagen suburb.

References

• International Rasmus Malling Hansen Society, Short Biography^{[permanent dead link]}
• Gordon Norrie @
  Who Named It
• The Kennedy Center, Glostrup, Copenhagen

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