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Robert Jarvik was born in Midland, Michigan, to Norman Eugene Jarvik and Edythe Koffler Jarvik, and raised in Stamford, Connecticut. [1] He is brother to Jonathan Jarvik, a biological-sciences professor at Carnegie Mellon University, [2] as well as the nephew of Murray Jarvik, a pharmacologist who co-invented the nicotine patch.
Marilyn vos Savant (/ ˌ v ɒ s s ə ˈ v ɑː n t / VOSS sə-VAHNT; born Marilyn Mach; August 11, 1946) is an American magazine columnist who has the highest recorded intelligence quotient (IQ) in the Guinness Book of Records, a competitive category the publication has since retired.
The Jarvik line of hearts was developed by the now-defunct medical device company Symbion, by medical device researchers Willem Kolff and Robert Jarvik in conjunction with the University of Utah. These hearts were developed through animal trials and culminated in the Jarvik-7 100, the original model that was used in the first clinical trials of ...
William DeVries was born December 19, 1943, in Brooklyn Navy Yard.His father, Henry DeVries, was a Dutch immigrant who died in combat on the destroyer USS Kalk (DD-611) in 1944 during the Battle of Hollandia, [1] where he had enrolled as a naval surgeon.
Jarvik is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Erik Jarvik (1907–1998), Swedish paleozoologist; Robert Jarvik (b. 1946), American scientist and inventor A series of artificial hearts; Lissy Jarvik (1924–2021), American psychiatrist; Murray Jarvik (1923–2008), American researcher and scientist and late husband of Lissy
Robert Jarvik, who worked in Kolff's laboratory at the University of Utah beginning in 1971, credited Kolff with inspiring him to develop the first permanent artificial heart. [9] Theodor Kolobow, the inventor of the silicone spiral coil membrane lung and pioneer of artificial organ development, was inspired by Kolff. [10]
Robert Jaffe (born approx. 1946), physicist, grew up in Stamford Robert Jarvik (born 1946), inventor of the first artificial heart, was reared in Stamford [ 43 ] [ 44 ] Harold June (1895–1962), U.S. Navy test pilot and Antarctic aviator
Robert Jarvik – inventor of the artificial heart; Lewis Judd – neurobiologist and psychiatrist, Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, pioneered biomedical study of mental illness; Grant Liddle – endocrinologist; Russell M. Nelson – physician and cardiothoracic surgeon; 17th president of the LDS Church