Rangaswamy Srinivasan has been honored by President Barack Obama with a national medal for science, technology and innovation for co-inventing LASIK eye surgery, reported the NY Daily News.
According to the White House citation Srinivasan and his fellow researcher Samuel Blumand James Wynne won for “the pioneering discovery of excimer laser ablative photodecomposition of human and animal tissue, laying the foundation for PRK and LASIK, laser refractive surgical techniques that have revolutionized vision enhancement,”