| Herman P. Schwan | |
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| Born | 7 August 1915 |
| Died | 17 March 2005 (aged 89) |
| Notable awards | IEEE Edison Medal |
Herman P. Schwan (7 August 1915 – 17 March 2005) was a physicist, who made contributions to the development of biomedical engineering. He was born in Aachen, Germany.
He received Ph.D. degrees in physics and biophysics in 1940 and 1946 from the University of Frankfurt-am-Main. He was with the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics in Frankfurt from 1937 to 1947. In 1947 he emigrated to America, where he joined the University of Pennsylvania's School of Medicine.
Schwan is a Fellow of the IEEE and the AAAS. He received the 1983 IEEE Edison Medal, and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and a Foreign Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society
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