Adolf Eugen Fick

Invention

• Fick invented the contact lens.• Born : September 3rd 1829.• Died :August 21st 1901.• The contact lens had been around

for close to one hundred years or more but his was the first to stop nearsightness and farsightedness.

Degrees

• 1851 doctorate• In 1847 he began

the study of mathematics and physics.

• Later he switched to medicine.

Degrees (cont)

• It wasn't till later in 1851 that he began studying visual errors and astigmatism .

The first contact lens

• The first few that fick invented were first tested on animals (rabits)and the contact covered the entire eyeball.

• And they were also very heavy and the user couldn't wear them for long periods of time .

Facts

• In 1851 he introduced fick’s laws of diffusion.

• In 1870 he thought up the Fick principal.

Facts On Contact Lens

• One hundred and twenty five thousand people wear contact lenses .

• Most of the wearers are in Japan and united states of America.

Styles

• There are many different types of contact lenses .

• Types• Sport• Color• Clear

Uses for contact lens

• Therapeutic contacts

• Cosmetic• Corrective

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