Gates Cambridge Scholars’ Distinguished Lecture: Professor Joshua Silver gives lecture on adaptive eye technology in the developing world

  • April 14, 2010

Professor Joshua Silver gives his Gates Scholars Distinguished Lecture entitled ‘How we do we really bring vision corrective to those that need it in the developing world?’. The lecture was held at the Cambridge Union Society on 3 February 2010.

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