Louis J. Girard

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Louis J. Girard developed the first form of contact lens in 1887. This form of contact lens covered the whites of the eye as well as the corneas.[1]

Girard studied at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas.[1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Hellemans, Alexander; Bryan Bunch (1988). The Timetables of Science. New York, New York: Simon and Schuster, 367. ISBN 0671621300. 
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