Johannes W. Rohen

Johannes W. Rohen was born in 1921 and completed his doctorate in medicine at the University of Tübingen in 1946. It was at Tübingen that he started lifelong research on the physiology of the eye. He became chair of anatomy at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg in 1964, and retired in 1989. He is the author of many textbooks, which reflect his standing as one of the founders of functional anatomy. He was jointly awarded the Heller Keller Prize for Vision Research for 2007.