To celebrate 75 years since its invention, ophthalmologists at Guy's and St Thomas' unveiled a portrait of Sir Harold Ridley gifted to the hospital by the Ridley Eye Foundation. Dr Sancy Low ...

22 out of 25. In the Lancet, Dr. Harold Ridley, London surgeon, describes the ingenious new technique for slipping a plastic lens into the eyeball. Only the front part of the lens capsule ...

The pieces of plastic remained in the pilots' eyes for years; when British ophthalmic surgeon Sir Harold Ridley examined them, however, he was amazed to see that these foreign materials did not ...