Charles Usher

[1] He based his findings on a survey of 69 individuals who suffered from visual problems associated with deafness.

Usher demonstrated that the disease was inherited, and that parents passed the condition onto their children.

His discovery was a continuation of the work done by German ophthalmologists Albrecht von Graefe and Richard Liebreich, who did extensive research of retinitis pigmentosa and its link to deafness in the mid-19th century.

With Dr. Nettleship and Karl Pearson (1857–1936), Usher produced an important work on albinism called A Monograph on Albinism in Man.

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