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September 6, 2002 (96 years old)
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Gemini
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Celebrities born on June 18
Born in 1906
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Orvan Walter Hess was an American physician noted for his early use of penicillin and the development of the fetal heart monitor. Hess was born in Baoba, Pennsylvania. At the age of two, after his mother's death, the family moved to Margaretville, New York where he grew up. Hess was inspired by Doctor Gordon Bostwick Maurer—who started Margaretville's first hospital in 1925— to study medicine. He married Dr. Maurer's sister, Carol Maurer, in 1928. Hess went to Lafayette College and was graduated in 1927, and received his MD from the University at Buffalo. He completed an internship at Children's Hospital in Buffalo, New York and became an obstetrician and gynecologist. For most of his career, Hess practiced at Yale-New Haven Hospital, interrupted by World War II service as a surgeon in the 48th Armored Medical Battalion attached to the 2nd Armored Division in the invasions of North Africa, Sicily and Normandy.
BornJune 18, 1906, Baoba, Pennsylvania
DiedSeptember 6, 2002, New Haven, Connecticut
FieldsMedicine, (obstetrics and gynaecology)
InstitutionsYale-New Haven Hospital, Yale School of Medicine
Alma materLafayette College, University at Buffalo
Known forPenicillin, Fetal heart monitor
Notable awardsAMA Scientific Achievement Award

About Orvan Hess

Doctor Orvan Hess was born on June 18, 1906 in Pennsylvania, United States (He dies at the age of 96, on September 6, 2002).

The first doctor to effectively utilize penicillin in treatment and the inventor of the first fetal heart monitor.

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Orvan Hess before becoming famous

Orvan Hess was born in the Zodiac sign Gemini (The Twins), and 1906 is also the year of Horse (馬) in the Chinese Zodiac.

His innovation sprang from a need to find a technique to distinguish the heartbeat of the infant from that of the mother, which was impossible to do with a stethoscope.

Achievement of Orvan Hess

His fetal heart monitor, along with ultrasound, is arguably the most commonly utilized instrument in delivery rooms.

Orvan Hess's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

With his wife, Carol Maurer, he had two daughters.

Orvan Hess Collabed with

Hess, like Doctor Carl Wood, who invented the IVF process, contributed to making childbirth safer and easier.

Carl Wood (1929 - 2011) (Doctor)
Carl Wood (1929 - 2011)

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Orvan Hess Income & Net worth

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