Naum Lazarevich Gurvich (Наум Лазаревич Гурвич) (April 15, 1905 – 1981) was a Soviet-Jewish cardiac physician, a pioneer in the development of defibrillators.
In 1986, the name was changed to the Institute of General Reanimatology, USSR Academy of Medical Sciences (the term "reanimation" was introduced into clinical practice by V.A.
[5] Humphrey immediately recognized the importance of reanimation research and after that a number of American doctors visited Gurvich.
At the same time, Humphrey worked on establishing of a federal program in the National Institute of Health in physiology and medicine, telling to the Congress: "Let’s compete with U.S.S.R. in research on reversibility of death".
[6] In 1970 Gurvich was among the group awarded the USSR State Prize in science and technology "за предложение, разработку и внедрение в медицинскую практику ЭИТ аритмий сердца" (for the proposal, development and introduction into medical practice of electropulse therapy [ cardioversion ] of cardiac arrhythmias.)