Robert Jarvik - Early Life

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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