Seymour Marco
Seymour Marco (1924-1983) was a country optometrist in Stark, Florida, who started making hard lenses in his garage. In the late 1950s, there were only about six major contact lens laboratories in the USA. Frontier in Buffalo; The Plastic Contact Lens Company and...Donald Brucker
Donald Brucker (1932-2005) was brought up in Los Angeles and became an optometrist because his brother-in-law was a Professor of optometry at Berkley. He graduated from there in 1956. His interest in the then rather primitive contact lenses began in the late 1950s....Maurice Seiderman
Maurice Seiderman was the owner and director of the Physiological Polymer Company of Hollywood California. He maintained that Hema had been invented in Russia prior to Wichterle and Lim and had been used in theatrical make-up. Seiderman claimed to have developed a...Walter E. Becker
Walter E Becker was an optometrist from Pittsburgh USA who patented silicone elastomer lenses in 1956. However the only US Patent found in this area is 3,228 741, 29 June 1962. Various stories circulate, one being that he had to cut the edges of the lenses with...Professor Otto Wichterle
Professor Otto Wichterle (1913-1998) had the greatest influence on contact lenses since the second world war. He invented Hema, developed the spin casting process, the first effective production method for soft contact lenses, and then secured numerous patents...Contact Us
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