Article
The chemistry of John Dalton's color blindness.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 17 Feb 1995
Hunt D M, Dulai K S, Bowmaker J K, Mollon J D
Abstract excerpt
John Dalton described his own color blindness in 1794. In common with his brother, he confused scarlet with green and pink with blue. Dalton supposed that his vitreous humor was tinted blue, selectively absorbing longer wavelengths. He instructed that his eyes should be examined after his death, but the examination revealed that the humors were perfectly clear. In experiments presented here, DNA extracted from...
Topics
- Base Sequence
- Chemistry
- Color Vision Defects
- England
- History, 18th Century
- Humans
- Male
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phenotype
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Retina
- Retinal Cone Photoreceptor Cells