Computer modelling the human heart

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Computer modelling the human heart

How a research student in 1960 built a virtual heart on a mainframe in the middle of the night.

Denis Noble developed the first computer model of the human heart. As a young research student in 1960, he made a huge breakthrough in computational physiology. Now 85 years old and Professor emeri...

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