Otto Wichterle

Otto Wichterle

male, deceased (1998)
Otto Wichterle (27 October, 1913 in Prostějov in Austria-Hungary, now in the Czech Republic - 18 August, 1998) was a Czech chemist and inventor, b...
Glenn Hagele

Glenn Hagele

male
Glenn Hagele is the founder and Executive Director of the Council for Refractive Surgery Quality Assurance ( details ). As an independent...
Adolf Eugen Fick

Adolf Eugen Fick

male, deceased (1901)
Adolf Eugen Fick (born 3 September, 1829, in Kassel, Germany; died 21 August, 1901, in Blankenberge, Flandern) was a German physiologist usually...

George Jessen

male
George Jessen was an optometrist who was an early pioneer of the contact lens. He is credited with being on of the first to employ the concept of...

August Müller

male, deceased (1949)
August Müller, born in Mönchengladbach, was a medical student at the University of Kiel, Germany, and a pioneer in the manufacture of contact le...

Eugène Kalt

male, deceased (1941)
Eugène Kalt was a French ophthalmologist who developed the first known application of a contact lens for the correction of keratoconus. In 1888, h...
Tom Henke

Tom Henke

male, 51 years old
Thomas Anthony (Tom) Henke (born December 21, 1957 in Kansas City, Missouri) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. He was one of the most...
Gordon Collis

Gordon Collis

male, 69 years old
Gordon Collis (born November 6, 1940) is a former Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League. Recruited from Healesville, Collis...
Storme Aerison

Storme Aerison

male
Storme Aerison is a con artist who gained notoriety in the 1990s for repeatedly impersonating a female high school student and later representing...