Chemist Wichterle “wasn’t bitter” over not profiting from invention of contact lens

A new exhibition at Prague’s Academy of Sciences marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Otto Wichterle, the great Czech chemist who invented modern soft contact lenses in the mid 1950s.

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