Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Rangaswamy Srinivasan (born February 28, 1929) is an inventor at IBM Research. One of the famous inventions he has contributed to is LASIK. In 1981, Rangaswamy discovered that an ultraviolet excimer laser can be used to etch a living tissue precisely without causing any thermal damage to surrounding area. He named it Ablative Photodecomposition (APD). In 1983, Rangaswamy collaborated with an ophthalmic surgeon to use APD for a surgery of the cornea. This led to development of LASIK. In 1998, Rangaswamy was awarded the Biological Physics Prize by the American Physical Society. IBM Research, a division of IBM, is a research and advanced development organization and currently consists of eight locations throughout the world and hundreds of projects. Its origins can be traced to the establishment in 1945 of the Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory at Columbia University which later expanded into other research labs in Westchester County, New York beginning in the 1950s.

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