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Although Boll was credited as being the first person to discover Rhodopsin or Visual Purple (the photo sensitive protein that contantly regenerates after bleaching with light to produce images on the retina)  Kühne was said to have produced no new knowledge about the substance apart  from the novelty of the optogram, Kühne however, strongly refuted this as his study and naming of rhodopsin were quite exhaustive invoving ten‘s of species of animal.