Geoffrey Wickham

Geoffrey Wickham

Geoffrey Gordon Wickham AO MIIE was one of the pioneers of cardiac pacemaking [cite web | author=Wickham, Geoffrey | title= Demand heart pacer with dual time bases | publisher=U.S. Patent Office | date= in June 2000 "for service to the design of medical equipment, particularly in the development of the implantable cardiac pacemaker". [ cite web |url=http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/honours/honour_roll/search.cfm?aus_award_id=886154&search_type=quick&showInd=true| title=Search Australian Honours |accessdate=2006-11-11 |format= |work=It's an Honour| publisher=Australian Government]
His accomplishments are remarkable in that he had no formal engineering training, finishing High School at year 8 to commence work as a radio/electrical repairman. At age 21 he passed the year 12 examinations by night study at the Adelaide School of Mines, while working as a senior technician at the Department of Supply Long Range Weapons Establishment in South Australia, and being appointed the same year on merit as an electrical engineer at graduate level by the Netherlands Philips company subsidiary T.C.A. Pty.Ltd.
In 1958-9 he studied application of the new technology of the transistor at Philips establishments in Holland and England; being relocated after that to Philips' Sydney headquarters.
In 1964, after being co-founding technical director of Telectronics Pty. Ltd. in 1963, the company was invited to participate in artificial cardiac pacemaker research in which co-founder Noel Gray and he made significant contributions. His involvement as a director of Telectronics ceased in about 1982.
Subsequently, while continuing involvement in bio-engineering particularly in paediatrics, he studied aerodynamics and structural engineering which led to construction of a fuel efficient light aircraft which was awarded the SAAA prize of the "Henry Millicer Best Australian Technical Innovation and Design" in 1998.

He was the recipient of Engineers Australia 2007 "David Dewhurst Award " "For Outstanding Achievement in Biomedical Engineering".

He is the father of 4 children and has 9 grand-children.

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