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Dr. Morton Mower, Inventor of Lifesaving Heart Device, Dies at 89

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by The New York Times | May 7, 2022
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Morton Mower, an entrepreneurial cardiologist who helped invent an implantable defibrillator that has saved many lives by returning potentially fatal irregular heart rhythms to normal with an electrical jolt, died on April 25 in Denver. He was 89.

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