Robert Koffler Jarvik (May 11, 1946 – May 26, 2025) was an American scientist, researcher and businessman known for his role in developing the Jarvik-7 artificial heart.

Robert Koffler Jarvik, inventor of the first permanently-implantable artificial heart, was born in Michigan on May 11, 1946. He demonstrated his mechanical aptitude early, having invented such useful …

May 30, 2025 · Jarvik is best known for designing the Jarvik-7, an artificial heart made of plastic and aluminum. It was implanted in Barney Clark, a 61-year-old retired dentist, on Dec. 2, 1982, at the …

May 30, 2025 · Robert Jarvik, who co-designed the first permanent artificial heart, dies at 79 The first permanent artificial heart was designed and implanted at the University of Utah

Physician and inventor Robert K. Jarvik (born 1946) helped design and build the first artificial heart used in a human being. He is also the founder of Jarvik Research, Inc., where he began work on the …

Robert Jarvik, MD is widely known as the inventor of the first successful permanent artificial heart, the Jarvik 7. In 1982, the first implantation of the Jarvik 7 in patient Barney Clark caught the attention of …

May 9, 2019 · Learn about the first artificial heart, the Jarvik-7, implanted in 1982 by heart surgeon William DeVries into retired dentist Barney Clark.

May 29, 2025 · Dr. Robert K. Jarvik, the principal designer of the first permanent artificial heart implanted in a human — a procedure that became a subject of great public fascination and fierce …

Aug 22, 2025 · In May 2025, Dr Robert Jarvik passed away after making his mark as the “inventor of the first permanent artificial heart.” 1 Although artificial heart technology had been in development for …

John Heysham Gibbon, the inventor of the machine, performed the operation and developed the heart–lung substitute himself. Following these advances, scientific interest for the development of a …