This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Contact lenses
Commemorated ati
George Nissel
George Nissel, 1913 - 1982, founder of G. Nissel & Co, first independent ...
Josef Dallos
Unveiled on the same day as the Nissel plaque. We learnt something typing th...
K. C. Hall
Keith Clifford Hall, FSMC, FAAO, DCLP, 1910 - 1964, pioneer in the fitting of...
Other Subjects
London School of Tropical Medicine
This school was founded in 1899 at the Albert Dock Seamen's Hospital by Patrick Manson, the Chief Medical Officer to the Colonial Office. The School moved to he Endsleigh Gardens site in 1920. The ...
Sir Bernard Spilsbury
Forensic pathologist.  Born Leamington Spa, son of a manufacturing chemist.  He was a pioneer in the science of determining the cause of death by examining a corpse and gave evidence in many cases ...
Joseph Merrick / John Merrick
"The Elephant Man". Born Leicester. Began to develop severe abnormalities within a few years. By aged 17 his mother had died, his father and step-mother had rejected him, and failing to find a job,...
Molly Pritchard
Psychiatrist and wife of furniture designer Jack Pritchard. Born as Rosemary Cooke.
Keith Clifford Hall
Optician. Â Born Cambridge. Â Aged 17 apprenticed to an optician. Â Qualified with night-school study and began fitting contact lenses in 1934. Â Became a world specialist and published an early text ...
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