Gerhard Rudolph Edmund Meyer-Schwickerath (10 July 1920 – 20 January 1992) was a German ophthalmologist,[1] university lecturer and researcher.

One year after Gerhard's birth, his younger brother, Klaus Meyer-Schwickerath, was born, who went on to study law and become a politician.

[4] Shortly after the war, Meyer-Schwickerath moved to Hamburg, where he worked as an assistant physician at the University of Hamburg-Eppendorf's eye clinic until 1952.

This first device focused sunlight through a telescope and utilized a series of mirrors leading into the operating room and into the eye of a Patients.

In the 1950s, he collaborated with the Zeiss Labs to develop the high pressure xenon gas discharge lamp, which eliminated the need for sunlight and produced a stronger beam for coagulation.

"[9] The Deutschmuseum Bonn is the loan of the optical museum of the company Carl Zeiss in Oberkochen, the original part of the sunlight coagulator developed by Meyer-Schwickerath from 1949 under the inventory number 1994 – L11.000.

At the 2007 DOG congress, Charles P. Wilkinson, president of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, counted Meyer-Schwickerath among the pantheon of German medical figures.