Irving Fatt (1920-1996)
Irving Fatt was born in Chicago and began his studies at the California Institute of Technology before serving in the US Air Force between 1942 and 1946. He completed a degree in chemistry in 1947 and gained his PhD in 1955. He joined the faculty at Berkeley...Freddie Burnett Hodd (1911-1999)
Frederick (Freddie) Arthur Burnett Hodd came from an optical family and received an honours diploma from Northampton Polytechnic in 1939. He achieved a distinguished career in optics although plans to join his father’s practice in Moorgate were interrupted by...Arthur Bennett (1912-1994)
Arthur Bennett, despite winning a scholarship to Haberdashers’ School, originally went into banking during the 1930s. He soon joined Willesden Optical Company as a spectacle lens worker. By 1945 Bennett had moved to the more prestigious Stigmat which announced...Stephen Gordon (1922-2004)
Stephen Gordon was born in Hungary and came to UK in 1949 having previously met Josef Dallos about 1934 when he was still a schoolboy. Gordon was not his real name but was adopted either for ease of pronunciation or for protection from wartime reprisals. Gordon had...Raymond Kelvin Watson (1911-1974)
Raymond Kelvin Watson came from an optical background. He began fitting contact lenses during 1945 in his own successful Cheshire practice, originally set up, when he was 21, with £250 from his father. He used a set from Dixey based on Zeiss lenses. Despite post-war...Contact Us
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