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Sigurd Ry Andersen
Danish ophthalmologist, 1915-2004.
Associated eponyms:
Norrie's disease
A rare form of hereditary blindness resulting from severe retinal malformations, opacity of the lens and atrophy of the iris.
Biography:
Sigurd Ry Andersen grew up in Århus. He studied in Copenhagen and became a physician in 1941. Following his examination he was employed at the Radiumstationen in Copenhagen. Here he began his education in pathology and conducted work on his doctoral dissertation on differentiation and effects of radiation on a transplantable mouse carcinoma.
In 1945 Ry Andersen got a position at the eye clinic of the Sankt Elisabeths Hospital and then decided to become an eye pathologist. In 1946 he came to the pathological laboratory at the eye department of the Rigshospitalet. He defended his doctoral thesis in 1949, became an ophthalmologist in 1950, and a pathologist in 1956. In 1972 the laboratory of eye pathology became the Eye Pathology Institute under the University of Copenhagen, and from 1979 to 1982 Ry Andersen was its first professor. Under his leadership this institute became a centre for the scientifically talented ophthalmologists.
In a life-long association with Dansk Blindesamfund – the Danish Society for the Blind – Ry worked to improve the conditions for the blind and in 1968 was a co-founder of Komiteen til Forebyggelse af Blindhed – the Committee for the Prevention of Blindness – and he also participated in the establishment of the European Ophthalmic Pathology Society, in 1961. Following retirement he continued his research and his last manuscript was ready for publication in April 2004, the year he died.
In 1940, Sigurd Ry Andersen married Monna Elisabeth Sjøreen, 1912-1996, an opera singer. They had one child, Kim Ry Andersen, born 1946.
We thank Andre Trombeta for information submitted.
Bibliography:
- S. R. Andersen and M. Warburg:
Norrie's disease. Archives of Ophthalmology, Chicago, 1961, 66: 614-618.
- S. R. Andersen:
Remarks on blindness in Denmark and on cooperation between the Danish Association of the Blind and the Danish Ophthalmological Society.
Acta ophthalmologica Scandinavica : Supplementum, Copenhagen, April 2002, 234: 18-19.
- S. R. Andersen:
The history of the Ophthalmological Society of Copenhagen 1900–50.
Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica. Supplementum, April 2002, 234: 6-17.
- S. R. Andersen:
Træk af den historiske udvikling af blindeforsorgen i Danmark.
Øjenpatologisk Institut, København, 2003. 50 pages
- S. R. Andersen:
Features of the development of a welfare system for visually disabled people in Denmark. Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica, February 2004, 82 (1): 5-12.
Biographical:
- Steffen Heegaard, Ove A. Jensen, Jan Ulrik Prause:
Sigurd Ry Andersen in memoriam.
Ugeskrift for Læger, Copenhagen, 2004, 166 (38): 3334.
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