Person    | Male  Born 29/3/1910  Died 16/12/1964

Keith Clifford Hall

Categories: Medicine

Optician. Born Cambridge. Aged 17 apprenticed to an optician. Qualified with night-school study and began fitting contact lenses in 1934. Became a world specialist and published an early text book on the subject with F. Dickinson, 1946. Died Bergen.

See also Josef Dallos.

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