Walter Keller

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Walter Keller is a mathematician, physicist, researcher, designer, and inventor. He designed and holds the patent on the first implantable atrial synchronous heart pacemaker; he designed a demand circuit critical to the controls of the artificial heart; and he pioneered the first remotely programmable computer implantable prosthesis.

He has researched electronic muscle stimulation for stroke victims and designed instrumentation to measure the effect of vitamin B on night blindness. Early in his career, he witnessed the first hydrogen bomb tests and designed the first transistorized control system for the hydrofoil craft. Keller is recognized internationally as the author of 35 research papers, and he holds 12 patents.

He retired in 1995, is married and the father of 12, grandfather of 27, and great grandfather of 4.