American inventor, creator of the Jarvik-7 artificial heart
Robert Jarvik
Born
Robert Koffler Jarvik
(1946-05-11) May 11, 1946 (age 77)
Midland, Michigan, U.S.
Alma mater
Syracuse University New York University
Occupation(s)
Scientist, researcher
Known for
Developing the Jarvik-7 artificial heart
Spouses
Elaine Levin
(m. 1968; div. 1985)
Marilyn vos Savant
(m. 1987)
Children
2
Relatives
Murray Jarvik (paternal uncle)
Website
https://www.jarvikheart.com/
Robert Koffler Jarvik (born May 11, 1946) is an American scientist, researcher, and entrepreneur known for his role in developing the Jarvik-7 artificial heart.
Jarvik-7 artificial heart. RobertJarvik was born in Midland, Michigan, to Norman Eugene Jarvik and Edythe Koffler Jarvik, and raised in Stamford, Connecticut...
implanted in a human was the Jarvik-7 in 1982, designed by a team including Willem Johan Kolff, William DeVries and RobertJarvik. An artificial heart is distinct...
Jarvik is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Erik Jarvik (1907–1998), Swedish paleozoologist RobertJarvik (b. 1946), American scientist...
known for the first transplant of a TAH (total artificial heart) using the Jarvik-7 model. William DeVries was born December 19, 1943, in Brooklyn Navy Yard...
married RobertJarvik (one of the co-developers of the Jarvik-7 artificial heart) on August 23, 1987, and was made Chief Financial Officer of Jarvik Heart...
William H. Dobelle for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2003. RobertJarvik, who worked in Kolff's laboratory at the University of Utah beginning...
Murray Elias Jarvik (June 1, 1923 – May 8, 2008) was an American psychopharmacologist and academic who was among the first scientists to study d-lysergic...
Lauterbur for their "discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging." RobertJarvik, inventor of the artificial heart. Anthony Atala, creator of the first...
There is some debate as to how much of Winchell's design RobertJarvik used in creating the Jarvik-7. Dr. Heimlich stated, "I saw the heart, I saw the patent...
Williams, and Wallace Stegner; R Adams Cowley, William DeVries, and RobertJarvik in medicine; historian Richard Foltz; educators Gordon Gee, Jonathan...
Crucible made the titanium alloy used in the artificial heart implanted by RobertJarvik, and donated corrosive-resistant steel used to help renovate the Statue...
President of the United States; Kathy Hochul, 57th Governor of New York; RobertJarvik, inventor of the first artificial heart implanted into human beings;...
(Traffic) Murade Isaac Murargy, Mozambican diplomat, politician May 11 – RobertJarvik, American physicist, artificial heart inventor May 12 – Richard Bruce...
inventor, entrepreneur (born in Milan, Ohio; later settled in Port Huron) RobertJarvik, medical inventor (born in Midland) Elijah McCoy, steam engine lubricator...
York Times Magazine in November 2009 RobertJarvik - medical scientist, inventor of the artificial heart Robert Metcalf - educator and pioneer in arthroscopic...
surviving recipient of a VAD for permanent use. He received an experimental Jarvik 2000 LVAD in June 2000. Since then, he completed a 91-mile charity walk...
recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry May 11 – RobertJarvik, American co-inventor of the Jarvik-7 artificial heart June 13 – Paul L. Modrich, American...
manager. Graduate student RobertJarvik was the project manager for the artificial heart, which was subsequently renamed the Jarvik-7. Based on lengthy animal...
spectroscopist and discoverer of the Hopfield bands of molecular oxygen (O2) RobertJarvik – inventor of the first permanently implantable artificial heart Hongxing...
Way") May 9 – Candice Bergen, American actress (Murphy Brown) May 11 – RobertJarvik, American physicist, artificial heart inventor May 12 – Richard Bruce...
Leonard M. Schuman (1977), "Patterns of Smoking Behavior", in Murray E. Jarvik; Joseph W. Cullen; Ellen R. Gritz; Thomas M. Vogt; Louis Jolyon West (eds...
artificial heart implant Talmage Egan - anesthesiologist and professor RobertJarvik – inventor of the artificial heart Lewis Judd – neurobiologist and psychiatrist...
later for "Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere". Born: RobertJarvik, American physicist and artificial heart inventor, in Midland, Michigan...
system Novacor and researched at last as a proctor of JarvikHeart in co-operation with RobertJarvik developing a new miniaturized “valve axial pump”. Supported...