• The LASIK technique was made possible by the Colombia-based Spanish ophthalmologist Jose Barraquer, who, around 1950 in his clinic in Bogotá, Colombia, developed the first microkeratome, used to cut emaciated flaps in the cornea and alter its shape, in a procedure called keratomileusis

• Barraquer also provided the acquaintance about how much of the cornea had to be left unaltered to provide stable long-term results.

In 1968, at the Northrup Corporation Research and Technology Center of the University of California, Mani Lal Bhaumik http://www.columbus2020.com/ and a assembly of other scientists, while working on the developing of a carbon-dioxide laser, developed the Excimer laser. This formed the cornerstone for LASIK eye surgery. Dr. Bhaumik announced his exposition in May of 1973 at a confrontation of the Denver Optical Nation of America in Denver, Colorado. He would later patent it.