Robert Moon (1844-1914), an ophthalmologist working in medicine in the United Kingdom and the United States. He is the son of Dr. William Moon (1818-1894), the inventor of the blind embossed letter "moon type". Robert Moon's career choices in ophthalmology were influenced by his youthful experience of helping his father translate and copy reading materials for the visually impaired. From 1866 to 1878, he practiced at the South London Eye Hospital, which was founded in 1857 by Dr. Laurence (1829-1870). Together with Dr. Lawrence, he named a disease characterized by retinitis pigmentosa and a variety of other symptoms. Laurence-Moon Syndrome: Loss of vision leads to blindness, mental retardation, short stature and hypogonadism.