Biography of wilson greatbatch

American engineer and inventor (1919–2011)

Wilson Greatbatch (September 6, 1919 – September 27, 2011) was an Americanengineer and pioneering inventor.

Biography of wilson greatbatch

He held more than 325 patents and was a member of the National Inventors Hall of Fame and a recipient of the Lemelson–MIT Prize^[1] and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation (1990).

Early years

Greatbatch was born in Buffalo, New York and attended public grade school at West Seneca High School.^[2][3] He entered military service and served during World War II, becoming an aviation chief radioman before receiving an honorable discharge in 1945.^[3] He attended Cornell University as part of the GI Bill, graduating with a B.E.E.

in electrical engineering in 1950; he received a master's degree from the University of Buffalo in 1957. Wilson loved fiddling with objects and this would lead to great things.^[3]

The Chardack-Greatbatch pacemaker

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