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.
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