The innovator’s struggle: Dr. Harold Ridley

Blake Shaw has a post on innovator Harold Ridley’s desperate battle: “A brilliant eye surgeon performs a revolutionary operation in secret, implanting a new device, the intraocular lens, which replaces the cloudy cataract. Word leaks out two years later, and the world’s most prominent ophthalmologist vilifies and ostracizes him. He suffers from depression, an outcast in his profession. …”