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LORD RAYLEIGH noticed that his brother-in-law, Lord Balfour, had abnormal vision and he devised the Rayleigh match to examine it. In rather similar circumstances many years before, Clerk Maxwell used the Maxwell colour triangle to prove that his father-in-law lacked the fundamental red sensation.
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RUSHTON, W., POWELL, D. & WHITE, K. Anomalous Pigments in the Eyes of the Red–Green Colour Blind. Nature 243, 167–168 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/243167a0
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