Leon Abrams FRCS
(1923-2012)

Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons and inventor of the variable rate pacemaker (1960)

Died aged c. 89

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Commemorated on 2 plaques

Leon Abrams and Ray Lightwood developed and implanted the first variable rate pacemaker in 1960

Medical School, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom where they was

Lucas Abrams Pacemaker invented here by Leon Abrams in 1960

Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, United Kingdom where they invented (1960)