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Friday 06 Apr 2012: Blind professor of optics
Nicholas Saunderson became the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge in 1711. In spite of being blind since childhood, he lectured in optics. Other Lucasian Professors include Isaac Newton, George Gabriel Stokes, Paul Dirac and Stephen Hawking.

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