Herbert Wertheim
$4.0B
Born
May 23, 1939
Age
86
Source of Wealth
Investments
Residence
Coral Gables, Florida
Citizenship
United States
Marital Status
Divorced
Children
2
Education
Associate in Arts/Science, Brevard Community College; Bachelor of Arts/Science, Southern College of Optometry; Doctorate, Southern College of Optometry
- Herbert "Herbie" Wertheim is an optometrist and inventor who built a fortune over five decades of investing in stocks.
- Wertheim, who is dyslexic and struggled in school, joined the U.S. Navy at age 17 after facing truancy charges.
- He founded and still runs Brain Power Inc., a manufacturer of optical tints for eyeglasses; it holds more than 100 patents and copyrights.
- Since 1970, he has invested his profits from Brain Power into the stock market and is the largest individual shareholder in aerospace firm Heico.
- Wertheim and his wife Nicole are in the process of getting divorced after 55 years of marriage.
- As a child, Wertheim ran away from home, finding work picking oranges in Florida or living with the Seminole Indians.
- In 1969, he invented an eyeglass tint for plastic lenses that would filter out and absorb dangerous UV rays.
- As a young NASA engineer at Cape Canaveral, he designed an automatic dipping machine to make 15-inch, no-drip beeswax candles.
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