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15. Sept. 2020 · Weisz was acutely aware he was lucky, unlike many, including his uncle who perished in Auschwitz. Heralded as a hero of the Holocaust, his cousin Dr Solomon Schonfeld rescued thousands from a ...
29. Mai 2020 · George Weisz, a tinkerer-turned-mechanical engineer who designed a popular ventilator being used to treat the coronavirus, has died in the UK at the age of 90, according to a report.
George Weisz. Professor, Cotton-Hannah Chair of the History of Medicine. george.weisz@mcgill.ca | 514-398-6274 | 3647 Peel, room 201. George Weisz received a PhD in History from Stony Brook University and in Sociology from the University of Paris 5 (Descartes).
George Weisz was a Hungarian mechanical engineer, philanthropist, film producer and father of three, including Oscar-winning actress Rachel Weisz. He invented a “pioneering artificial ventilator pneumatically powered by its own oxygen cylinder”.
Renowned British engineer George Weisz, born in Hungary in 1929 as György Weisz, has passed away. He was also known as the father of Academy Award and Golden Globe Award actress Rachel Weisz.
Weisz was born on 7 March 1970 in Westminster, London, and grew up in Hampstead Garden Suburb. Her father, George Weisz, was a Hungarian Jewish mechanical engineer. Her mother, Edith Ruth (née Teich), was a teacher-turned-psychotherapist originally from Vienna, Austria.
9. Dez. 2015 · George Weisz’s ambitious history describes how over the course of the twentieth century, the new concept of chronic disease shaped health policy. He is convinced that the concept led to innovative policies in the U.S., but historians, he believes, have too often ignored it, giving primacy to battles over national health insurance.
