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Hess received the American Medical Association's Scientific Achievement Award in 1979 for his work on this case.
Personal Life
Hess married Carol Maurer in 1928. His wife Carol died in 1998, and left him with two daughters, Katherine and Carolyn.
Death And Legacy
The inventor of the fetal heart monitor, Orvan Hess died at the age of 96, on September 6, 2002 in New Haven, Connecticut. Within the basement of a building called ‘Hartford Medical Society’ located outside the city of Hartford, exists the original fetal heart monitor system made by Hess.
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