Mr Wichterle was imprisoned by the Germans in 1942-43 for advocating personal freedom.
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Only years later, when Mr Wichterle became interested in contact lenses, did he put it to use, and an industry was born.
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Otto Wichterle, when a professor of chemistry in Prague in the 1950s, had discovered a polymer called hydrogel poly-hydroxyethyl methacrylate, with its affinity for water.