{"id":567,"date":"2004-10-08T16:50:42","date_gmt":"2004-10-08T20:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ziknblog.com\/audeladuracisme\/?p=567"},"modified":"2013-05-06T14:10:36","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T18:10:36","slug":"pacemaker-otis-boykin-1920-1982","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ziknblog.com\/audeladuracisme\/2004\/10\/08\/pacemaker-otis-boykin-1920-1982\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacemaker : Otis Boykin (1920-1982)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Inventeur du r\u00e9gulateur pour stimulateur cardiaque,
\nplus commun\u00e9ment appel\u00e9<\/i>\u00a0:
\npacemaker.<\/b><\/center><\/p>\n

N\u00e9 \u00e0 Dallas, au Texas, Otis Boykin est dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 de Fisk et de l\u2019Institut de Technologie de l\u2019Illinois. Apr\u00e8s avoir termin\u00e9 ses \u00e9tudes, il est employ\u00e9 par la\u00a0Majestic Radio of TV Corporation<\/i>, \u00e0 Chicago, puis est embauch\u00e9 au\u00a0P.J. Nilsen Research Labs of Oak Park<\/i>\u00a0en tant qu\u2019ing\u00e9nieur. Entre autres fonctions, il occupera le poste de consultant en \u00e9lectronique pour diverses soci\u00e9t\u00e9s am\u00e9ricaines et europ\u00e9ennes.<\/p>\n

Il a, \u00e0 son actif, d\u2019autres inventions tout aussi remarquables, par exemple :<\/p>\n

    \n
  • un filtre \u00e0 air;<\/li>\n
  • un type de r\u00e9sistance utilis\u00e9 dans les ordinateurs, radios et t\u00e9l\u00e9viseurs;<\/li>\n
  • et surtout un dispositif \u00e9lectronique indispensable \u00e0 tous les missiles guid\u00e9s et \u00e0 certains ordinateurs IBM.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Plus de vingt brevets, \u00e0 partir de 1959, seront ainsi enregistr\u00e9s.<\/b><\/center><\/p>\n

    Membre de l\u2019American Association for the Advancement of the Sciences<\/i>, de l\u2019International Society for Hybrid Micro-electronics<\/i>\u00a0et du\u00a0Chicago physics Club<\/i>, de partout Boykin est honor\u00e9 par ses pairs. Il se verra m\u00eame d\u00e9cerner le \u00ab Cultural Science Achievement Award \u00bb par l\u2019Old Pros unlimited Club.<\/i><\/p>\n

    En 1982, \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e2ge de 62 ans, ce discret et distingu\u00e9 savant \u00e9lectronicien dispara\u00eet, victime d\u2019un arr\u00eat du c\u0153ur.<\/p>\n

    Source :<\/p>\n

      \n
    • Yves Antoine, Les inventeurs et savants noirs, Paris, Montr\u00e9al, L\u2019Harmattan, 1998.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Inventeur du r\u00e9gulateur pour stimulateur cardiaque, plus commun\u00e9ment appel\u00e9\u00a0: pacemaker. N\u00e9 \u00e0 Dallas, au Texas, Otis Boykin est dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 de Fisk et de l\u2019Institut de Technologie de l\u2019Illinois.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[72],"class_list":["post-567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-la-decouverte-des-noirs","tag-otis-boykin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ziknblog.com\/audeladuracisme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ziknblog.com\/audeladuracisme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ziknblog.com\/audeladuracisme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ziknblog.com\/audeladuracisme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ziknblog.com\/audeladuracisme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ziknblog.com\/audeladuracisme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":569,"href":"https:\/\/www.ziknblog.com\/audeladuracisme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions\/569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ziknblog.com\/audeladuracisme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ziknblog.com\/audeladuracisme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ziknblog.com\/audeladuracisme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}