Awards & Winners

William B. Kouwenhoven

Date of Birth 13-January-1886
Place of Birth Brooklyn
(United States of America, New York City, New York, New York-White Plains-Wayne, NY-NJ Metropolitan Division)
Nationality
Also know as William Kouwenhoven
Profession Electrical engineer, Engineer
William Bennett Kouwenhoven, was an electrical engineer who developed closed-chest cardiac massage, part of CPR and also invented the first cardiac defibrillator.

Awards by William B. Kouwenhoven

Check all the awards nominated and won by William B. Kouwenhoven.

1973


Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award
(For his life-saving development of open and closed chest defibrillators, and for originating the technique of external cardiac massage.)