John Alexander Hopps

John Alexander Hopps
Born(1919-05-21)May 21, 1919
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
DiedNovember 24, 1998(1998-11-24) (aged 79)
Alma materUniversity of Manitoba (B.Sc.Eng.)
Occupationmedical researcher
Known forpioneering cardiac pacemaker
AwardsOrder of Canada

John Alexander Hopps, OC (May 21, 1919 – November 24, 1998) was a co-developer of both the first artificial pacemaker and the first combined pacemaker-defibrillator, and was the founder of the Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Society (CMBES). He has been called the "Father of biomedical engineering in Canada."[1][2][3]

He was also the President and Secretary-General of the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering from the 1970s to the mid-1980s.[1] He is a member of the Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame.[4]

  1. ^ a b Office of the Secretary to the Governor General. "Mr. John Alexander Hopps". The Governor General of Canada. Retrieved 2021-08-29.
  2. ^ Administrator. "CMBES Founder". www.cmbes.ca. Retrieved 2016-11-14.
  3. ^ "Creating a new kind of heart beat | The Channel". ingeniumcanada.org. Retrieved 2021-08-29.
  4. ^ The Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame: The Hall Archived 2014-11-09 at the Wayback Machine, Canada Science and Technology Museum.