Earl Elmer Bakken (January 10, 1924 – October 21, 2018) was an American engineer, inventor, businessman and philanthropist of Dutch and Norwegian American...

The Bakken Museum (/ˈbɑːkən/ BAH-kən) is situated in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. Established in 1975 by Earl Bakken, the co-founder of Medtronic...

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artificial heart valve implant in a human in 1958, and in the same year, Earl Bakken, co-founder of Medtronic, Inc., developed the first portable pacemaker...

exporter Picker International. In 1967, he was hired away from Picker by Earl Bakken, CEO of Medtronic to become their first international sales administrator...

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rapid development of practical cardiac pacemaking. In 1958, engineer Earl Bakken of Minneapolis, Minnesota, produced the first wearable external pacemaker...

in 1949 in Minneapolis by Earl Bakken and his brother-in-law, Palmer Hermundslie, as a medical equipment repair shop. Bakken invented several medical technology...

portable, battery-powered pacemaker. It was invented at his behest by Earl Bakken, whose then-small company, Medtronic, designed and repaired electronics...

Cynthia Ahearn (1952-2008) - echinodermologist and museum specialist Earl Bakken - engineer, philanthropist Norman Borlaug - agronomist Paul D. Boyer...

anyone and was about to auction off the collection in 1984 when Earl Bakken stepped in. Bakken, the founder of Medtronic and the inventor of the first wearable...

research and a founding member of the Biomedical Engineering Society Earl Bakken (deceased) – Invented the first transistorised pacemaker, co-founder...

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developed the Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine. Earl Bakken developed the first wearable transistorized pacemaker and founded the...

profiles of leaders in the world of business, including Medtronic founder Earl Bakken, Kinko's CEO Paul Orfalea, and Panasonic CEO Don Iwatani, and companies...

America to make a significant contribution to the medical field. In 1957, Earl Bakken of Minneapolis, Minnesota, produced the first wearable external pacemaker...

football player, was raised and went to school in Columbia Heights. Earl Bakken, inventor of the first external, battery-operated, transistorized, wearable...

which describes the diagnostic use of ultrasound in obstetrics. Engineer Earl Bakken (U.S.) produces the first wearable external artificial pacemaker, for...

2017) January 9 – Mary Kaye, guitarist and singer (d. 2007) January 10 Earl Bakken, engineer and businessman, inventor of the modern Artificial pacemaker...

2004) 1922 – Billy Liddell, Scottish-English footballer (d. 2001) 1924 – Earl Bakken, American inventor (d. 2018) 1924 – Ludmilla Chiriaeff, Canadian ballerina...

former footballer Jim Bakken – former American football punter and placekicker Jill Bakken – American Olympic bobsledder Ole Bardahl Earl W. Bascom (1906–1995)...

surgery in 1952. The first portable cardiac pacemaker was created by Earl Bakken with the help of Walton Lillehei and Richard Varco in 1957. The first...

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design of computer peripheral equipment. In April 1966, he was hired by Earl Bakken, CEO of Medtronic as a Sales Engineer. Adducci was the ninetieth employee...

Rose the Bakken Scientific Achievement Award. Granted by Medtronic, the award is named after its co-founder and pacemaker pioneer Earl Bakken, to someone...

paleography Dave Arneson, game designer Marian Breland Bailey, psychologist Earl Bakken, founder, Medtronic Amit Bando, climate activist Christopher Barden,...

Vice-Governor of Fujian Province, fall. Earl Bakken, 94, American pacemaker inventor (Medtronic) and museum founder (Bakken Museum). Ilie Balaci, 62, Romanian...

Ingeborg, Buckberg is survived by two daughters and four grandchildren. • Earl Bakken Scientific Achievement Award, The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (2000)...

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