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Jorge Reynolds Pombo
Jorge Reynolds Pombo is an electrical and bio- engineer born in Colombia (June 22, 1936, Bogota), despite the popular belief in Colombia, Jorge Reynolds Pombo did not invent the pacemaker, that was done in 1952 by the American Paul Zoll. The Swede Rune Elmqvist (1906-1996) developed the first pacemakern internally implanted in 1958.
Studies and research.
During his school years, he studied in Bogotá, Colombia. He claimed to have attended Trinity College at Cambridge, England.
keratomileusis was developed by Ignacio Barraquer in 1964 in Bogotá. On January 10, 1985 Dr. Elkin Lucena performed the first successful In vitro fertilization, that allowed the birth of the first Latin American test tube baby Carolina Mendez. On December 14, 1985 the Dr. Alberto Villegas performed the first heart transplant in Latin America to Antonio Yepes. 
On May 20, 1994 Manuel Elkin Patarroyo received the Prince of Asturias Awards by his technical and scientific research in the development of synthetic malaria vaccine. Dr. Jorge Reynolds Pombo is credited with having