Early Life
Robert Jarvik was born in Midland, Michigan to Norman Eugene Jarvik and Edythe Koffler Jarvik, and raised in Stamford, Connecticut. He is the nephew of Murray Jarvik, a pharmacologist who was the co-inventor of the nicotine patch.
Jarvik is a graduate of Syracuse University. He earned a master’s degree in medical engineering from New York University.
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