Bernard Lown, doctor at the vanguard of cardiac care, antiwar activist who shared Nobel Peace Prize, dies at 99
By Mark Feeney Globe Staff,Updated February 16, 2021, 1:06 p.m.
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Dr. Lown was called âthe Albert Schweitzer of our timesâ by author Norman Cousins.Jonathan Wiggs/BOSTON GLOBE
Bernard Lown, a Harvard cardiologist who invented the first reliable heart defibrillator and later cofounded International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, which won the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize, died Tuesday at his home in the Newton part of Chestnut Hill. He was 99 and his health had declined due to congestive heart failure.