German ophthalmologist. Born in 1871, died in 1965. Friedrich Best was born in Wermelskirehen in Rhineland, received early medical and ophthalmology education at Theodore Leber clinic in Heidelberg, then went to Giessen. Under the leadership of Vossius, he became an assistant professor from 1896 to 1905, during which he It took a while. Together with the great physiologist Hering. In 1906 he settled in Dresden until the German branch, and he came to Neidermarsburg in western Germany until his 90th year. In addition to his classic study of macular degeneration, he is always interested in visual physiology and is the first person to use a logarithmic scale when measuring dark adaptation. Best disease (yolk-like macular dystrophy): Heredofamilial macular degeneration with autosomal dominant inheritance.