William B. Kouwenhoven

William B. Kouwenhoven

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William Bennett Kouwenhoven (13 January, 1886 – 10 November, 1975), was an electrical engineer who developed closed-chest cardiac massage, part of CPR and also invented the first cardiac defibrillator.

Biography

He was born in Brooklyn, and received his B.E. from Brooklyn Polytechnic in New York, and his Ph.D. from the Karlsruhe Technische Hochschule in Germany in 1913. Kouwenhoven was an IEEE Fellow, recipient of the IEEE Edison Medal in 1961. He also received the Power Life Award and the Albert Lasker Medical Research Award.

He researched the electrophysiology of the heart and discovered the effects of electricity on the heart including defibrillation.

External links

* [http://www.ieee.org/web/aboutus/history_center/biography/kouwenhoven.html IEEE legacy website]
* [http://www.geocities.com/neveyaakov/electro_science/kouwenhoven.html Part of his biography of electrobiologists]


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