Arnall Patz received the US Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2004 for his lifetime of work in what field?

Question

Which US presidential nominee in 1948 advocated closer cooperation with the Soviet Union, United Nations administration of foreign aid, and arms reduction?

Answer 1

Ophthalmology
In the early 1950s, he discovered that oxygen therapy was the cause of blindness in premature babies, leading to a 60% reduction in childhood blindness in the USA, and in the 1960s he conducted pioneering research into the use of lasers in the treatment of retinal disorders.