Linda Wichterlová Biography – Linda Wichterlová Wiki
Linda Wichterlová is the widow of Otto Wichterle who was a Czech chemist, best known for his invention of modern soft contact lenses. Otto died on August 18, 1998, aged 84. On October 27, 2021, Google celebrated Wichterle’s 108th birth anniversary with a doodle on its homepage.
Linda played part in assisting her husband to produce the first four hydrogel contact lenses on a homemade apparatus built using a children’s building kit (Merkur), a bicycle dynamo belonging to one of his sons, and a bell transformer. Wichterle also made all the molds and glass tubing needed to dose them with monomer.
On Christmas afternoon, with the help of his wife Linda, using the machine on his kitchen table, Wichterle finally succeeded. He tried the lenses in his own eyes and although they were the wrong power they were comfortable. Thus, he invented a new way of manufacturing the lenses using a centrifugal casting procedure. A few days later, he completed his patent application and produced over 100 lenses by spin casting. He built several new prototype machines using Merkur toys with increasing numbers of spindles which required the stronger motor taken from his gramophone. With these rudimentary devices, in the first four months of 1962, Wichterle and Linda made 5,500 lenses. The early experimental lenses were called Geltakt and the later production lenses Spofalens after the state enterprise SPOFA which manufactured them.
Linda Wichterlová Age
Her age is unknown. Her husband Otto Wichterle was born on October 27, 1913, in Prostějov, Czechia, and died on August 18, 1998, in Stražisko, Czechia. He was 84 years.
Linda Wichterlová Husband
She is the widow of Czech chemist Otto Wichterle who died on August 18, 1998, in Stražisko, Czechia. They were married from 1938 until 1998 when Otto passed on. The couple was the parents of two adult sons.
On October 27, 2021, Google celebrated Wichterle’s 108th birth anniversary with a doodle on its homepage.
Linda Wichterlová Children
With her husband, she had two children, both sons named Kamil Wichterle, and Ivan Wichterle.
