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Adolf Gaston Eugen Fick (1852-1937) was a German ophthalmologist who invented the contact lens.
In 1887 he constructed and fitted what was to be considered the first successful model of a contact lens: an afocal scleral contact shell made from heavy brown glass, which he tested first on rabbits, then on himself, and lastly on a small group of volunteers. His idea was advanced independently by several innovators in the years that followed.
He was the nephew of the German physiologist Adolf Eugen Fick.
External links and sources
- Fick biography - The "Kontaktbrille" of Adolf Eugen Fick (1887)
- Fick biography - Contact Lens History , the overseas pioneers