Jurriaan ten Doesschate (Utrecht, October 31, 1912 – Zeist, November 3, 1977) was a Dutch ophthalmologist and medical scientist, who specialized in physiological optics.
[1] The son of ophthalmologist and art historian Gezienus ten Doesschate and of linguist Amelia Hermina Henrietta Kortebosch, he attended the Municipal Gymnasium in Utrecht before studying medicine in the same city (1930–38).
He established an ophthalmological practice in Zeist in 1942, the same year in which he obtained his doctorate in medicine with a dissertation on “Physiologisch-optische beschouwingen betreffende de visueele beoordeling van Röntgenphotogrammen” (Physiological-optical aspects of the visual assessment of radiographs).
In 1949, he became chef de clinique of the Ooglijdersgasthuis (Netherlands Hospital for Eye Patients), which had been founded by Franciscus Cornelis Donders in 1858.
In 1964-65, ten Doesschate was awarded the Netherlands Visiting Professorship at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, established in 1950.