Roger Hanif Armour (19 August 1934 – 17 September 2020) was a British vascular surgeon and inventor of the lens-free ophthalmoscope.
[1][2][3] Roger Armour was born on 19 August 1934 in Murree in Northern India (subsequently in Pakistan).
He studied vascular and micro-vascular surgery at Nashville and Zurich respectively as Hamilton Bailey Prize-winner (1973–74).
His brother, David S. Ahmed, was consultant surgeon and Vice President of Medical Services, Regina Qu'Appelle Health Region, Canada.
It won several awards including two Medical Futures Innovation Awards and the 2005 Edward de Bono medal for application and simplicity, and was placed 2nd in the Saatchi and Saatchi "World Changing Ideas" global competition.