Interesting enough - my husband had tried each lens himself but none of the nylons
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Linda Wichterlová, née Zahradníková, was born on 18 August 1917 in Prostějov. Her family were very active in many fields such as community theatre, tennis or winter sports. In the summer they would go for a retreat in Stražisko where Linda Wichterlová spends her summers to this day. This is also where she met her future husband, a renowned chemist and inventor Otto Wichterle. Soon after their wedding in 1938 the war broke out. They had spent it in Zlín where Otto Wichterle worked in Baťa’s company chemical research. After the war they moved to Prague where she finished her dentistry studies. Because of the then lack of dentists, she was able to graduate preliminarily. Ever since 1961 she collaborated with her husband in contact lens development because he was forced to move his research home for lack of funding. In 1968 both of them had signed the Two Thousand Words manifesto. Linda Wichterlová lived in Prague and Stražisko. She died on November 24th, 2023.
