Hjalmar August Schiøtz (1850-1927) began his journey to become the first Norwegian Professor of Ophthalmology in 1879 alongside Ernest Fuchs in Vienna. Schiøtz aware of the important relationship between intraocular pressure and glaucoma created a device to accurately and reliably measure intraocular pressure. In 1905 Schiøtz presented the Schiøtz Tonometer at the Norwegian Medical Society Meeting.