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Charles Schepens
2006 Mar, 28

Charles Schepens

Charles Schepens, Belgian-American ophthalmologist and author (b. 1912)
Charles Louis Schepens (March 13, 1912 – March 28, 2006) was an influential Belgian (later American) ophthalmologist, regarded by many in the profession as "the father of modern retinal surgery", and member of the French Resistance.

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