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IBM100 - Excimer Laser Surgery

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In 1981 three IBM scientists—Rangaswamy Srinivasan, James Wynne, Samuel Blum—invented a process to use the excimer laser to remove human tissue. The process that later was used in LASIK and PRK surgery, which adjusts the shape of the cornea.

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