Paul Zoll

Paul Maurice inch ( born July 15, 1911 in Boston, Massachusetts, † January 5, 1999 in Newton, Massachusetts) was an American cardiologist. He invented in 1952 the defibrillator and pacemaker.

After graduating from Boston Latin School, he went to Harvard College, where he became interested in philosophy and psychology and studied with Edwin G. Boring. In 1936 he went to Harvard Medical School, where he met with Soma Weiss explored the relationship between alcoholism and heart disease in the last year.

During the Second World War, he served as a cardiologist in the 160th U.S. Army Station Hospital in the United Kingdom. Here he met his Harvard classmate Dwight Harken back, he assisted in the successful removal of foreign bodies from the heart. In the observation of the heart during surgery whose excitability impressed him.

1954 back in Boston, he participated in the Beth Israel Hospital his research with Herman Blumgart and Mark J. Schlesinger again. In 1973 he was awarded the Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research.