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

The answer is Adolf Gaston Eugen Fick.

Fick was a doctor from Switzerland who studied how the eye works.

1. He designed a glass lens that rested on the surface of the eye in 1888.
2. This device is treated as the first true contact lens in medical history.
3. The lens was heavy and could only be worn for a short time each day.
4. Even so, it opened the path for later scientists to make lighter and safer lenses.

Today's soft plastic lenses trace their origin back to this early glass design by Fick.