Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Gerald Westheimer AM FRS is a scientist known for his research of the eye, its optics and how we see details in space and in three dimensions. The observant Jewish family—long settled in Germany and traced back at least to Schutzjude Joseph Aaron Westheimer born in 1768 in Menzingen, Baden—into which he was born in 1924 as the younger of two sons in Berlin, emigrated to Sydney Australia in 1938. He never relinquished the Australian citizenship gained by naturalization. Appointment to membership in the Order of Australia in 2009 recognized his continued identification with the country that provided refuge from the holocaust.. }
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- Gerald_Westheimer abstract "Gerald Westheimer AM FRS is a scientist known for his research of the eye, its optics and how we see details in space and in three dimensions. The observant Jewish family—long settled in Germany and traced back at least to Schutzjude Joseph Aaron Westheimer born in 1768 in Menzingen, Baden—into which he was born in 1924 as the younger of two sons in Berlin, emigrated to Sydney Australia in 1938. He never relinquished the Australian citizenship gained by naturalization. Appointment to membership in the Order of Australia in 2009 recognized his continued identification with the country that provided refuge from the holocaust.".