# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eugene-kalt
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:10:13.229Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eugene-kalt"
name: "Eugène Kalt"
slug: "eugene-kalt"
description: "Eugène Jean Baptiste Kalt was a French ophthalmologist who developed the first known application of a contact lens for the correction of keratoconus. In 1888, he worked on a crude flat-fitting glass scleral lenses designed to \"compress the steep conical apex thereby correcting the condition\". His first lenses were crafted from the bottoms of glass test tubes."
tagline: "French ophthalmologist (1861–1941)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
birthDate: "1861-02-24"
deathDate: "1941-05-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.3
  momentum:             2.195121951219512
  historical:           5.468466666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Kalt"
    title: "Eugène Kalt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Kalt"
    title: "Eugène Kalt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%95%CE%B6%CE%AD%CE%BD_%CE%9A%CE%B1%CE%BB%CF%84"
    title: "Εζέν Καλτ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Kalt"
    title: "Eugène Kalt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Kalt"
    title: "Eugène Kalt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Kalt"
    title: "Eugène Kalt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1796866"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump