Michel Mirowski
Michel Mirowski · Science & Medicine
Invented the automatic implantable cardiac defibrillator
1924, Warsaw, Poland — 1990, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Poland · Israel · United States
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Michel Mirowski was a cardiologist, born to a Jewish family in Warsaw and a Holocaust survivor, who invented the automatic implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD). Implanted first in 1980, the device detects lethal heart arrhythmias and delivers a corrective shock, and it has since saved hundreds of thousands of lives. He developed it in Israel and the United States against widespread early skepticism.
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Invented the automatic implantable cardiac defibrillator
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