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Biomedical Engineering

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Engineers whose defining technological contribution is a device built to treat or support the human body. The technology atlas's live roster here is small and specific: Willem Kolff for the dialysis machine, the defining early biomedical engineering device. Does not belong here: general-purpose scientific or medical instruments with no direct treatment function, which stay with the discipline that built them.

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