Founder Profile
Robert Alexander
Who is Robert Alexander?
Robert Alexander is a founder of Alcon, which was founded in 1945 with William Conner.
- Company founded
- Alcon
- Founded
- 1945
- Co-founders
- William Conner
Background
Graduate of the University of Texas College of Pharmacy; early pioneer in sterile ophthalmic packaging and specialized eye drop manufacturing.
Founding Story
Robert Alexander was an American pharmacist who co-founded Alcon Laboratories in Fort Worth, Texas in 1945 alongside William Conner. The duo combined their names (Alexander and Conner) to create the brand 'Alcon'. Alexander focused on sterile pharmaceutical compounding, recognizing that ophthalmologists lacked reliable, pre-mixed sterile solutions for eye surgery and infection treatment.
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