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Read Article Dr. Bernard Lown walks on the bridge renamed in his honor, in 2008 in Lewiston. Lown was a Massachusetts cardiologist who invented the first reliable heart defibrillator and later co-founded an anti-nuclear war group that was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize. He died Tuesday. Jose Leiva/The Lewiston Sun-Journal via Associated Press Dr. Bernard Lown will be remembered as a humanitarian, for his work on the invention of the defibrillator and his activism for world peace. To the people of the Twin Cities, he’ll be remembered as a hometown hero. Lown died Tuesday at age 99. The Boston Globe reported the Lithuania-born doctor’s health had been declining from congestive heart failure. He died in his Boston-area home.

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