Smack my ass and call me Judy! : ]
According to English wikipedia Gregg Toland worked on such lens before he died (1948).
I love this man. Wherever and whenever he is now.
I rarely think of what happens with humans after life (most likely because I have very little idea of any other, next or previous, forms of existence) but I am sort of in hopes that this particular man still involves himself into making movies.