Paul Maurice Customs
Paul Maurice Zoll (born July 15, 1911 in Boston , Massachusetts , † January 5, 1999 in Newton , Massachusetts) was an American cardiologist . He invented the pacemaker in 1952 .
Life
After graduating from Boston Latin School , he went to Harvard College , where he took an interest in philosophy and psychology and studied with Edwin G. Boring . In 1936 he went to Harvard Medical School , where he spent the last year researching the relationship between alcoholism and heart disease with Soma Weiss .
During World War II he served as a cardiologist at the 160th US Army Station Hospital in the UK. Here he met his Harvard fellow student Dwight Harken again, whom he supported in successfully removing foreign bodies from the heart. When observing the heart during surgery, he was impressed by its excitability.
Back in Boston in 1954, he resumed research at Beth Israel Hospital with Herman Blumgart and Mark J. Schlesinger. In 1973 he received the Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research . In 1980 he co-founded Zoll Medical Corporation . In 1981 he was accepted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
Web links
- Paul Maurice Zoll: Faculty of Medicine - Memorial Minute , obituary from the Harvard University Gazette, April 19, 2001
Individual evidence
- ^ Paul M. Zoll Biography - Cardiac Resuscitation - ZOLL Medical. Retrieved April 8, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Customs, Paul Maurice |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American cardiologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 15, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Boston , Massachusetts |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 5, 1999 |
| Place of death | Newton , Massachusetts |