Wilmer is fortunate to have retained many of the historical artifacts from its first century of existence—artifacts that tell the story of some of the biggest breakthroughs in ophthalmology. Click here for a look back at the 1940s–1950s.

1. Carl Kupfer, who trained at Wilmer, became the first director of the National Eye Institute. Credit: Office of NIH History and Stetten Museum, National Institutes of Health
2. Wilmer trainee Charles Iliff developed beta irradiation therapy for pterygium.
3. Clinical Neuro-Ophthalmology by Frank B. Walsh remains the foremost textbook on neuro-ophthalmology.
4. David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel at the Wilmer Eye Institute. The pair would go on to share the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system.
5. Fundus image depicting optic neuropathy hand-illustrated by Annette Smith Burgess

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