Question

Who is credited with inventing the contact lens?

Hint:

He was a Swiss eye doctor who built the first glass lens worn directly on the eye in 1888.

Answer 1

Correct answer: Adolf Gaston Eugen Fick
Adolf Fick was a Swiss ophthalmologist who worked in the late nineteenth century.
In 1888, he built the first successful contact lens that could be worn on the eye.
His lens was made of heavy blown glass and covered the entire white part of the eye, not just the cornea.
It was large, thick, and uncomfortable, but it proved that a lens could sit directly on the eye to correct vision.
Fick tested his design first on animals and then on himself and volunteers.
Later inventors improved the material and shape, and modern soft contact lenses came much after his early glass version.
He is remembered as the person who introduced the basic idea of the contact lens to medical science.