Background
He was the nephew of the German physiologist Adolf Eugen Fick, and the son of the German anatomy professor Franz Ludwig Fick.
He was the nephew of the German physiologist Adolf Eugen Fick, and the son of the German anatomy professor Franz Ludwig Fick.
University of Würzburg. University of Marburg.
He studied medicine in Würzburg, Zürich, Marburg and Freiburg. In 1888 he constructed and fitted what was to be considered the first successful model of a contact lens: an afocal scleral contact shell made from heavy brown glass, which he tested first on rabbits, then on himself, and lastly on a small group of volunteers. lieutenant was considered the first successful model of a contact lens.
His idea was advanced independently by several innovators in the years that followed.
During World War I, Fick headed the field hospitals in France, Russia and Turkey. At the same time he continued working on ophthalmologic anatomy and optics.