Inventor Name
Ellis, Frederick Warren
Repository
Harvard University
Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Longwood Medical Area
10 Shattuck St.
Boston, MA 02115
617-432-2170
http://www.countway.med.harvard.edu/
Physical Description
1 box
Summary
Ellis (Harvard, M.D. 1881) did postgraduate study at the Harvard Medical School in physiology with Henry P. Bowditch. After 1886 he was an ophthalmologist in Springfield and Monson, Mass. He conducted ophthalmological experiments; and his research focused on the physiology and psychology of visual sensations and perceptions. Ellis’ inventions included the prism-stroboscope. At his death, he was the last original member of the American Physiological Society. Contains typescript of memoirs of Ellis concerning the early history of academic physiology, Harvard’s Department of Physiology, and H. P. Bowditch.