(1905 – 1979)

Physician. ‘Invented the contact lens’.

He perfected the method of making molds of living eyes. This enabled the manufacture of lenses that, for the first time, conformed to the actual shape of the eye. He was a real pioneer in scleral lenses and was one of the first to recognize and discuss internal or lenticular astigmatism.

Invented: the first practical contact lenses, a glass-molding technique that allowed the lens to take on the characteristics of the sclerotic membrane.