Purkinje effect
Efecto Purkinje
- Date
- 1825 · confidence medium
- Place
- Breslau (Wrocław), Poland
- Credited to
- Jan Evangelista Purkyně
- Field
- Life & health
What was discovered
Czech physiologist Jan Evangelista Purkyně described in 1825, in Breslau, the shift of the eye's peak sensitivity toward blue as ambient light decreases, by which red colors appear to darken more than blue or green ones at dusk.
What it led to
- Studies of dark adaptation
- Design of night and emergency lighting
- Understanding of rod-mediated scotopic vision