Editing Biomedical engineering (section)

==Notable figures==
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* [[Julia Tutelman Apter]] (deceased) – One of the first specialists in neurophysiological research<ref>{{Cite news |date=1979-04-18 |title=Dr. Julia Apter, Ophthalmologist And Researcher, 61, in Chicago |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/04/18/archives/dr-julia-apter-ophthalmologist-and-researcher-61-in-chicago.html |access-date=2023-03-01 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=2023-03-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230301024913/https://www.nytimes.com/1979/04/18/archives/dr-julia-apter-ophthalmologist-and-researcher-61-in-chicago.html |url-status=live }}</ref> and a founding member of the Biomedical Engineering Society<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://assets.noviams.com/novi-file-uploads/bmes/PDFs_and_Documents/History/BMES_35_year_HISTORY_-_FINAL_1_.pdf |title=Celebrating 35 years of Biomedical Engineering: An Historical Perspective |publisher=[[Biomedical Engineering Society]] |year=2004 |editor-last=Fagette Jr. |editor-first=Paul H. |publication-place=Landover, MD |pages=4 |editor-last2=Horner |editor-first2=Patricia I. |access-date=2023-03-01 |archive-date=2023-03-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230301031037/https://assets.noviams.com/novi-file-uploads/bmes/PDFs_and_Documents/History/BMES_35_year_HISTORY_-_FINAL_1_.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Earl Bakken]] (deceased) – Invented the first transistorised pacemaker, co-founder of [[Medtronic]].
* [[Forrest Bird]] (deceased) – aviator and pioneer in the invention of [[mechanical ventilator]]s
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* [[Yuan-Cheng Fung|Y.C. Fung]] (deceased) – [[professor emeritus]] at the [[University of California, San Diego]], considered by many to be the founder of modern [[biomechanics]]<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.techscience.com/mcb_pdf/v1n1/pdf/184288277842.pdf |title=YC "Bert" Fung: The Father of Modern Biomechanics|author=Kassab, Ghassan S.|journal= Mechanics & Chemistry of Biosystems |publisher=Tech Science Press|year=2004|volume=1|issue=1|pages=5–22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071202171321/http://www.techscience.com/mcb_pdf/v1n1/pdf/184288277842.pdf|archive-date=December 2, 2007|url-status=dead|doi=10.3970/mcb.2004.001.005|pmid=16783943}}</ref>
* [[Leslie A. Geddes|Leslie Geddes]] (deceased) – professor emeritus at [[Purdue University]], electrical engineer, inventor, and educator of over 2000 biomedical engineers, received a [[National Medal of Technology]] in 2006 from President George Bush<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pZJVE51Vao | archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211107/2pZJVE51Vao| archive-date=2021-11-07 | url-status=live|title=Leslie Geddes – 2006 National Medal of Technology |via=YouTube |date=2007-07-31 |access-date=2011-09-24}}{{cbignore}}</ref> for his more than 50 years of contributions that have spawned innovations ranging from burn treatments to miniature defibrillators, ligament repair to tiny blood pressure monitors for premature infants, as well as a new method for performing [[cardiopulmonary resuscitation]] (CPR).
<!--Non-Notable name * [[Richard J. Johns]] – [http://ethw.org/Oral-History:Richard_J._Johns] Massey Professor and Director of [[Johns Hopkins University Biomedical Engineering]] at Johns Hopkins University, leading Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering 1965–1991 during its great expansion as a department in both the [[Johns Hopkins School of Medicine]] and [[Whiting School of Engineering]]. Johns was said to have been the first to coin the term [[Systems Biology]] as part of an Annual report in 1972–1973. -->
* [[Willem Johan Kolff]] (deceased) – pioneer of [[hemodialysis]] as well as in the field of artificial organs
* [[Robert S. Langer|Robert Langer]] – [[Institute Professor]] at [[MIT]], runs the largest BME laboratory in the world, pioneer in [[drug delivery]] and [[tissue engineering]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2006/langer.html|title=Colleagues honor Langer for 30 years of innovation|work=MIT News Office|date=July 20, 2006|author=O'Neill, Kathryn M.|access-date=March 16, 2007|archive-date=February 18, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140218205553/http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2006/langer.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
<!--Non-Notable name * [[Herbert Lissner]] (deceased) – Professor of Engineering Mechanics at [[Wayne State University]].  Initiated studies on blunt head trauma and injury thresholds beginning in 1939 in collaboration with E.S. Gurdjian, a neurosurgeon at Wayne State's School of Medicine.  Individual for whom the [[American Society of Mechanical Engineers]]' top award in Biomedical Engineering, the Herbert R. Lissner Medal, is named. -->
* [[John Macleod (physiologist)|John Macleod]] (deceased) – one of the co-discoverers of insulin at [[Case Western Reserve University]].
* [[Alfred E. Mann]] – Physicist, entrepreneur and philanthropist. A pioneer in the field of Biomedical Engineering.<ref>{{cite web |last=Gallegos |first=Emma |url=http://www.aemf.org/The |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120724174624/http://www.aemf.org/The |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 24, 2012 |title=Alfred E. Mann Foundation for Scientific Research (AMF) |publisher=Aemf.org |date=2010-10-25 |access-date=2011-09-24 }}</ref>
*J. Thomas Mortimer – Emeritus professor of biomedical engineering at Case Western Reserve University. Pioneer in Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://engineering.case.edu/profiles/jtm3|website=CSE Faculty/Staff Profiles|title=J. Thomas Mortimer|publisher=engineering.case.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-06-14|archive-date=2023-05-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230502221647/https://engineering.case.edu/profiles/jtm3|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[Robert M. Nerem]] – professor emeritus at [[Georgia Institute of Technology]]. Pioneer in regenerative tissue, biomechanics, and author of over 300 published works. His works have been cited more than 20,000 times cumulatively.
*P. Hunter Peckham – Donnell Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Orthopaedics at Case Western Reserve University. Pioneer in Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://case.edu/universityprofessor/past-recipients/p-hunter-peckham-phd|title=P. Hunter Peckham, PhD {{!}} Distinguished University Professor {{!}} Case Western Reserve University|website=Distinguished University Professor {{!}} Case Western Reserve University|date=25 April 2018|language=en-US|access-date=2018-06-14|archive-date=2024-07-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240726171615/https://case.edu/universityprofessor/past-recipients/p-hunter-peckham-phd|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[Nicholas A. Peppas]] – Chaired Professor in [[Engineering]], [[University of Texas at Austin]], pioneer in [[drug delivery]], [[biomaterials]], [[hydrogels]] and [[nanobiotechnology]].
* [[Robert Plonsey]] – professor emeritus at [[Duke University]], pioneer of electrophysiology<ref>{{cite web |url=http://fds.duke.edu/db/pratt/BME/faculty/robert.plonsey |website=Faculty – Duke BME |publisher=Fds.duke.edu |title=Robert Plonsey, Pfizer-Pratt Professor Emeritus |access-date=2009-10-11 |archive-date=2009-06-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090605193629/http://fds.duke.edu/db/pratt/BME/faculty/robert.plonsey |url-status=live }}</ref>
<!--Non-Notable name * [[Murray B. Sachs]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ethw.org/Oral-History:Murray_Sachs|title=Oral-History: Murray Sachs – Engineering and Technology History Wiki|website=ethw.org|language=en|access-date=2017-11-04}}</ref> –  Director of the [[Johns Hopkins University Biomedical Engineering|Johns Hopkins University Department of Biomedical Engineering]] from 1991–2005,  and a pioneer in the field of Biomedical Engineering in Hearing Science winning the 1998 Von Bekesy award.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://tcppasa.org/awards/|title=Awards {{!}} Technical Committee on Psychological and Physiological Acoustics|website=tcppasa.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-11-04}}</ref> He and members of his laboratory, the Neural Encoding Laboratory at Johns Hopkins, were one of the first to derive primary auditory nerve population codes that became the basis of the modern cochlear implant.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Sachs|first=Murray B.|last2=Young|first2=Eric D.|last3=Miller|first3=Michael I.|date=1983-06-01|title=Speech Encoding in the Auditory Nerve: Implications for Cochlear Implants|journal=Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences|language=en|volume=405|issue=1|pages=94–113|doi=10.1111/j.1749-6632.1983.tb31622.x|issn=1749-6632|pmid=6575675}}</ref> -->
* [[Otto Schmitt]] (deceased) – biophysicist with significant contributions to BME, working with [[biomimetics]]
* [[Ascher H. Shapiro|Ascher Shapiro]] (deceased) – Institute Professor at MIT, contributed to the development of the BME field, medical devices (e.g. intra-aortic balloons)
* [[Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic]] – University Professor at [[Columbia University]], pioneer in [[tissue engineering]] and [[bioreactor]] design 
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* [[John G. Webster]] – professor emeritus at the [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]], a pioneer in the field of [[instrumentation amplifier]]s for the recording of [[electrophysiology|electrophysiological signals]]
* [[Fred Weibell]], coauthor of ''Biomedical Instrumentation and Measurements''
* [[Uncas A. Whitaker|U.A. Whitaker]] (deceased) – provider of the [[Whitaker Foundation]], which supported research and education in BME by providing over $700 million to various universities, helping to create 30 BME programs and helping finance the construction of 13 buildings<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.whitaker.org/ |title=The Whitaker Foundation |publisher=Whitaker.org |access-date=2011-09-24 |archive-date=2011-09-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110925095240/http://www.whitaker.org/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
<!-- Non-Notable name * [[Seymour Ben-Zvi]], ScD, CCE – Established the Scientific and Medical Instrumentation Center (SMIC) at SUNY Downstate<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.unimasr.net/ums/upload/files/2011/May/UniMasr.com_14ab3dd34c5b89a8eedfe9a1f60900d8.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www.unimasr.net/ums/upload/files/2011/May/UniMasr.com_14ab3dd34c5b89a8eedfe9a1f60900d8.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|title=Clinical Engineering Handbook}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EIeQhdrW2VMC&q=Seymour%20Ben-Zvi|title=Clinical Engineering Handbook|last=Dyro|first=Joseph F.|date=2004|publisher=Academic Press|isbn=9780122265709|language=en}}</ref> -->