Franz Christian Boll

Franz Boll (26 February 1849, Neubrandenburg – 19 December 1879, Rome) was a German physiologist and histologist.

[1] Boll is remembered for the discovery of rhodopsin, when he noticed that the light-sensitive pigment in the rods of the retina had a tendency to fade in the presence of illumination.

[2] He also published his findings in a pamphlet titled Sull'anatomia e fisiologia della retina (1877).

As a student of Max Schultze (1825–1874) at Bonn, he was the author of a significant histological treatise on dental pulp called Untersuchungen über die Zahnpulpa.

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