Herbert Remmer during the early fifties, as seen by a doctoral fellow.

Herbert Remmer is remembered by his first Ph.D. student as a demanding mentor with high standards in scientific matters. Remmer was always ready to discuss and question his student's findings, and in this way, served as a lifetime model. Remmer was always generous with the multitude of scientific ideas he generated and he was ready to share these new ideas with others. Remmer is characterized as a person with universal interests possessing a curiosity in philosophy, religion and in all other unanswered questions of the universe.

[On the clinical picture of Asteroid hyalitis (author's transl)]. / Zur Klinik der Synchisis nivea (albescens).

The clinical data of 98 cases (104 eyes) of Asteroid hyalitis are reported and found to be similar to those of previous publications. As to etiology no certain evidence for an underlying general disease is available from the literature. The disease is found to be very rare in myopic eyes, which supports the occurrence of a local determinating factor.

[A simple method to check alternating fixation in penalisation (author's transl)]. / Einfache Prüfung der alternierenden Fixation bei der Penalisation

In addition to his glasses worn for penalisation, the patient receives spectacles with a red and green glass. Asked to fix the lamp of the examinator, the patient sees the light either red or green, according to which eye is fixing on the light.