William B. Kouwenhoven

William Bennet Kouwenhoven was an American electrical engineer known as the Father of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, best remembered for his contributions to the development of closed-chest cardiac massage and for his invention of the cardiac defibrillator. After obtaining his doctorate in engineering from the Karlsruhe Technische Hochschule in Germany, he began his career as dean at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He worked on saving the lives of patients through the application of electricity, and with the cooperation of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Department of Surgery and an Edison Electric Institute grant he developed a closed-chest defibrillator. He became the first recipient of an honorary degree conferred by the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and two years before his death he was awarded the Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research.

William Bennet Kouwenhoven was an American electrical engineer known as the Father of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, best remembered for his contributions to the development of closed-chest cardiac massage and for his invention of the cardiac defibrillator. After obtaining his doctorate in engineering from the Karlsruhe Technische Hochschule in Germany, he began his career as dean at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He worked on saving the lives of patients through the application of electricity, and with the cooperation of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Department of Surgery and an Edison Electric Institute grant he developed a closed-chest defibrillator. He became the first recipient of an honorary degree conferred by the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and two years before his death he was awarded the Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/