Mr. John Alexander Hopps

  • Deceased
  • Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Order of Canada

  • Officer of the Order of Canada

    • Awarded on: June 23, 1986
    • Invested on: November 12, 1986

    Former President and Secretary-General of the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering, the "Father of bioengineering in Canada" was co-developer, in the early 1950s, of both the first cardiac pacemeker and the first combined pacemaker-defibrillator.