Malcolm Begemann, Willem Boute and Marijn Van Gemert (The
Netherlands)  Rhythm of Life  In 1995, a patent was published by
Dutch inventors Malcolm Begemann, Willem Boute and Marijn Van
Gemert that had a dramatic effect on the quality of life
experienced by pacemaker users. It was while working at
Netherlands-based Vitatron that the innovators created a
pacemaker with dynamic, non-linear rate responsiveness - a
product which was able to adapt from patient to patient and
adapt to patient history. In the years that followed, countless
products utilised this technology, which still features today in
key Vitatron pacemakers.  Everyone has a pacemaker.  It's
pacemaker cells that create the vital rhythmic impulses which
control the beat of the human heart. But if these cells have
been damaged in some way and the natural pacemaker we are born
with is not functioning as it should, then these electric
impulses must be produced using a different method.  Enter the
artificial pacemaker. By the 1950s, several research gro