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15. Sept. 2020 · George Weisz was a Hungarian-born engineer who invented a pioneering artificial ventilator and helped many organisations and individuals. He was also a philanthropist, a film producer and a Holocaust survivor.
- Elisabeth Perlman
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 is a historian of medicine and global health who has published books and articles on various topics such as mineral waters, gynecology, clinical guidelines, and medical education. He is the Cotton-Hannah Chair of the History of Medicine at McGill University and has taught courses on health and the healer in Western society.
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”.
George Weisz, who invented a pioneering artificial ventilator in 1972, passed away in May 2020. He was also the father of actress Rachel Weisz and a successful businessman in Britain.
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.
