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Greatbatch, Wilson

LC control no.n 86864795
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Personal name headingGreatbatch, Wilson
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Birth date19190906
Death date20110927
Place of birthBuffalo (N.Y.)
Place of deathWilliamsville (N.Y.)
Profession or occupationElectrical engineers
Found innuc86-101696: His Implantable active devices, 1983 (hdg. on CU-BANC rept.: Greatbatch, Wilson; usage: Wilson Greatbatch)
The making ot the pacemaker, 2000: CIP t.p. (Wilson Greatbatch) data sheet (b. 9-6-19)
New York times WWW site, Sept. 28, 2011 (Wilson Greatbatch; b. Sept. 6, 1919, Buffalo; d. Tuesday [Sept. 27, 2011], Williamsville, N.Y., aged 92; professed "humble tinkerer" who, working in his barn in 1958, designed the first practical implantable pacemaker, a device that has preserved millions of lives)
The Eleanor and Wilson Greatbatch Pavilion, 2009: page 1 of folded sheet (Wilson Greatbatch) page 5 (born in Buffalo, New York, September 6, 1919; graduated from Cornell University with BS in Electrical Engineering, 1950 and from the University at Buffalo, MS Electrical Engineering, 1957; invented the implantable cardiac pacemaker in 1958)