Wilson Greatbatch ’50, inventor of the implantable cardiac pacemaker, died Wednesday night in Buffalo, N.Y., at the age of 92. Since its first use in 1960, the pacemaker has allowed people with heart ...

The UB community is mourning the loss of Wilson Greatbatch, a UB alumnus, former engineering faculty member and inventor of the implantable cardiac pacemaker who died on Tuesday at age 92. "Our ...

Your heart runs on electricity! Discover how tiny sparks keep it beating — and how Buffalo inventor Wilson Greatbatch’s “happy accident” led to the pacemaker, a life-saving device that changed ...

Wilson Greatbatch, whose invention of the implantable cardiac pacemaker has kept millions of hearts beating in rhythm, died Tuesday in suburban Buffalo, N.Y. He was 92. Sign up to get the most recent ...

Sixty-two years ago, an electrical engineering researcher at UB named Wilson Greatbatch made one of the most important medical breakthroughs of the 20th century when he invented the implantable ...

Wilson Greatbatch was surrounded by broken PlayStations, DVD players and kids screaming with excitement, but he couldn't have looked more at home. Greatbatch, the inventor of the implantable pacemaker ...

At 87, Wilson Greatbatch's vision is failing and his hearing isn't so good, but the man whose batteries power millions of pacemakers still loves a challenge. "Fortunately, I can still think," he says.

The implantable pacemaker, a medical marvel that has extended millions of lives since its invention nearly 60 years ago, is getting a 21st century makeover. First came a wireless version; these ...