Google hails the inventor of the soft contact
Last Wednesday’s Google “Doodle” – the search engine’s ever-changing commemorative logo illustration – paid tribute to Otto Wichterle, the Czech chemist who held about 180 patents and invented the soft contact lens. This Oct. 27 was his 108th birthday. Wichterle was born in Prostějov, in what was then the Austro-Hungarian ...
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