Martin Scheiner

Martin Lane Scheiner (September 1, 1922 – January 21, 1992) was an American inventor of electronics devices for medical purposes.

[7] After serving in the U.S. Navy during WWII, Scheiner founded Instrument Laboratories in 1950, which was soon renamed Electronics for Medicine in White Plains, NY.

The company was a pioneer in developing instruments for cardiac catheterization, including for André Frédéric Cournand who co-won the 1956 Nobel Prize in Medicine for this work.

He remained married to his second wife, the children's book author Ann McGovern, until his death, legally adopting her adult son.

He lived in the Frank Lloyd Wright associated community of Usonia Historic District until his death from Leukemia in 1992 at Lenox Hill Hospital.