Josef Flammer

Josef Flammer is a Swiss ophthalmologist and long-time director of the Eye Clinic at Basel University Hospital. Flammer is a glaucoma specialist who developed a new pathogenetic concept of glaucomatous damage according to which unstable blood supply leads to oxidative stress, which in turn plays a major role in apoptosis of cells in the optic nerve and retina in glaucoma patients.

21 April 1948

Born on the same birth date (21 April 1948): Dieter Fromm • Gary Condit • Paul Davis (singer)

Born on the same birth day (21 April): Charles Grodin • Eddy Christiani • James McAvoy • John McCabe (composer) • John Swinton of Kimmerghame • Silvana Mangano

Born in the same month (April 1948): Christopher Brown (museum director) • Edith Brown Clement • Jaap de Hoop Scheffer • Joschka Fischer • Josef Hickersberger • Margit Papp • Paul Cellucci • Paul Davis (singer) • Peter Law