Google Doodle celebrated Czech druggist Otto Wichterle’s 108th birth anniversary with a special visual on October 27. Otto Wichterle is the man who had constructed soft contact lenses. Moment’s Doodle celebrates Wichterle’s life and heritage on his birth anniversary. The portrait features an animated figure of Wichterle holding a lens on his cutlet.
Otto Wichterle was born on October 27 in 1913 in Prostjov, the Czech Republic ( also, Austria-Hungary). As a nut of wisdom from a veritably youthful age, Wichterle went on to earn his doctorate in organic chemistry in 1936 from the Prague Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT). He tutored as a professor at his alma mammy during the 1950s while developing an spongy and transparent gel for eye implants Political fermentation pushed Wichterle out of the ICT but that didn’t stop him from continuing with his development. He continued enriching his hydrogel development at home.
In 1961, Wichterle (a spectacles wearer himself) produced the first soft contact lenses with a DIY outfit made of a child’s erector set, a bike light battery, a phonograph motor, and manual glass tubing and molds Wichterle was tagged as the first President of the Academy of the Czech Republic following the country’s establishment in 1993 His inventions also laid the foundation for state-of-the- art medical technologies similar as “ smart” biomaterials, which are used to restore mortal connective apkins, andbio-recognizable polymers, which have inspired a new standard for medicine administration,” Google Doodle runner says.