Fred Weibell

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|name = Fred Weibell

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|birth_date = {{birth date|1927|10|18}}

|birth_place = Murray, Utah

|death_date = August 6, 2015 {{death date and age|2015|8|6|1927|10|18}}

|death_place = Alpine, Utah

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|alma_mater = University of Utah
University of California, Los Angeles

|occupation = Biomedical engineer

|nationality = American

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Fred John Weibell (October 18, 1927 – 2015) was an American biomedical engineer. He served for many years as the Secretary-Treasurer of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES).{{Cite web |url=http://www.bmes.org/pdf/vol23_2.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2008-12-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060927045541/http://www.bmes.org/pdf/vol23_2.pdf |archive-date=2006-09-27 |url-status=dead }} In 1992, he was the first recipient of the BMES Distinguished Service Award in recognition of his "extraordinary contributions to the Society."{{Cite web |url=http://bmes.org/awards_distinguished.asp |title=BMES - Biomedical Engineering Society |access-date=2008-12-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517112734/http://www.bmes.org/awards_distinguished.asp |archive-date=2008-05-17 |url-status=dead }}

Together with Leslie Cromwell and Erich A. Pfieffer, he was a coauthor of Biomedical Instrumentation and Measurements (Prentice Hall {{ISBN|0-13-076448-5}}). For several decades, this text has been "considered by many to be the 'Bible' for biomedical technicians,"http://www.vabiomed.org/newsletters/vn1997-04Aprilhtm{{Dead link|date=December 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} and is still used in the curriculum of colleges and universities worldwide.http://nitc.ac.in/nitc/dept/ee/public_html/department-web/COURSE/curi_2006/EEA%20622.htm{{Dead link|date=December 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}http://www.silicon.ac.in/syllabus/1st%20to%204th-Year(Branch-AEI).doc {{Dead link|date=February 2022}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.coepinstru.org/drupal/node/78 |title=Medical Instrumentation | Department of Instrumentation and Control |access-date=2008-12-13 |archive-date=2008-11-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081122002539/http://coepinstru.org/drupal/node/78 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |url=http://www.jmc.edu/jmct/physics/syl2008-09/M.Sc%20Physics.doc |title=Archived copy |access-date=2008-12-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719220335/http://www.jmc.edu/jmct/physics/syl2008-09/M.Sc%20Physics.doc |archive-date=2011-07-19 |url-status=dead }}

He died August 6, 2015, from causes incident to age and Parkinson's disease.