Endre Alexander Balazs (10 January 1920 – 29 August 2015) was a Hungarian physician and inventor who transformed a natural lubricant into a palliative for arthritic knees as well as an important adjunct for cataract/IOL surgery now routinely used all over the world.

He devoted seven decades to exploring the therapeutic potential of hyaluronic acid.

His father was an engineer at the Budapest Waterworks until the communist takeover after World War II.

[3] He was the director of ophthalmic research at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center from 1975 to 1982.

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