A G Gaydon 1938 Proc. Phys. Soc. 50 714 doi:10.1088/0959-5309/50/5/309
A G Gaydon
Show affiliationsThe crystalline lens of the author's left eye has, as the result of an accident, been destroyed. The eye is now sensitive to ultra-violet light of quite low intensity. The sensation between 3600 and 3100 A. is blue, not violet. The sensations produced by extremely faint ultra-violet light on the dark-adapted retina are discussed; the behaviour is essentially similar to that in normal scotopic vision, the light appearing colourless and the peripheral region being more sensitive than the fovea.
42.66.Ne Color vision: color detection, adaptation, and discrimination
Issue 5 (1 September 1938)
Received 28 January 1938
A G Gaydon 1938 Proc. Phys. Soc. 50 714
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