Fred John Weibell (October 18, 1927 – 2015) was an American biomedical engineer. He served for many years as the Secretary-Treasurer of the

Biomedical Engineering Society BMES (the Biomedical Engineering Society) is the professional society for students, faculty, researcher and industry working in the broad area of biomedical engineering. BMES is the leading biomedical engineering society in the United States and was ...

(BMES). In 1992, he was the first recipient of the BMES Distinguished Service Award in recognition of his "extraordinary contributions to the Society." Together with

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and Erich A. Pfieffer, he was a coauthor of

Biomedical Instrumentation and Measurements Biomedicine (also referred to as Western medicine, mainstream medicine or conventional medicine)

(Prentice Hall ). For several decades, this text has been "considered by many to be the 'Bible' for biomedical technicians," and is still used in the curriculum of colleges and universities worldwide. He died August 6, 2015 from causes incident to age and

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1927 births University of Utah alumni Scientists from Salt Lake City University of California, Los Angeles alumni 2015 deaths American biomedical engineers {{US-engineer-stub