Harold Ridley (ophthalmologist)

Sir Nicholas Harold Lloyd Ridley (* July 10, 1906 in Kibworth Harcourt, Leicestershire, † 25 May 2001, Salisbury ) was a British ophthalmologist.

He implanted on November 29, 1949 at St. Thomas Hospital in London, a patient's first artificial lens ( intraocular lens ). This surgery is now a common procedure, but was then a medical sensation. 1959, the implantation of the Ridley lens was abandoned due to high complication rates and you explored other forms of artificial eye lenses.

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  • Biography of Ridley in Britannica
  • Ophthalmologist
  • Briton
  • Born in 1906
  • Died in 2001
  • Man
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