Renowned doctor, Nobel Prize winner with deep ties to Maine passes away © Lown Institute Dr. Bernard Lown
Dr. Bernard Lown, a Mainer who invented the first heart defibrillator and was a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, has died.
The Lewiston High and University of Maine graduate was a household name around the world.Sign up for our Newsletters If the world had more people like him, it would be a very peaceful world, said friend and former Lewiston Mayor Larry Gilbert.
Lown helped advance cardiac treatment as a professor at Harvard University and a physician at Brigham and Women s Hospital in Boston. He invented the direct-current defibrillator, or cardioverter, and was also an outspoken social activist, founding Physicians for Social Responsibility and later co-founding International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, which won him the Nobel Peace Prize.
Dr Bernard Lown, cardiologist, inventor, anti-war activist and former Mainer, dies at 99
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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.