Hamilton Hartridge FRS (7 May 1886 – 13 January 1976) was a British eye physiologist and medical writer.
[1] Known for his ingenious experimentation and instrument construction abilities, he designed what is called the Hartridge Reversion Spectrometer.
He graduated in medicine from St George's Hospital in 1914, serving during the war as an experimental officer at RNAS Kingsnorth.
[3] After the war he stayed in Cambridge University as lecturer in special senses and senior demonstrator in physiology.
He gained a reputation as an ingenious experimenter, constructing, for example, the continuous-flow apparatus for measuring the rates of very fast reactions,[4] as well as working to revise established medical textbooks.