Gavriel idaan biography of williams

Gavriel Iddan is an Israeli electro-optical engineer and the inventor of wireless capsule endoscopy. Initially at RAFAEL Armament Development Authority working on guided missile technology, Iddan got the idea for an endoscopic capsule while on sabbatical in Boston from a neighbour of his, an Israeli gastroenterologist suffering from undiagnosed stomach pain.

After working on the idea for almost twenty years, he successfully created a prototype in – a disposable pill-sized camera that passes straight through the digestive tract, continuously broadcasting to an external receiver. Iddan's invention was approved by the FDA in In he became a European Inventor Award Iddan was born in October in Haifa Israel.

he is married (second time) and has 3 sons and 7 grand