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    Bernard Lown (June 7, 1921 – February 16, 2021) was a Lithuanian-American cardiologist and inventor. Lown was the original developer of the direct current...
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  • atrioventricular node in the majority of cases. The syndrome is named after Bernard Lown, William Francis Ganong, Jr., and Samuel A. Levine. In general, patients...
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    Until the mid 90s, external defibrillators delivered a Lown type waveform (see Bernard Lown) which was a heavily damped sinusoidal impulse having a mainly...
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  • Problems Solved. He is the recipient of the 2016 University of Maine Bernard Lown Alumni Humanitarian Award, the 2023 International Food Security Award...
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  • the procedure being removed from CPR training. James E. Pennington and Bernard Lown at Harvard University are credited with formalizing this technique in...
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    social justice, and environmentalism. In 1961, future IPPNW founder Dr. Bernard Lown formed prevenient sister organization, the US Physicians for Social Responsibility...
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    Hosaka Jackie Hudson Kate Hudson Ole Kopreitan David Lange Amory Lovins Bernard Lown Caroline Lucas Freda Meissner-Blau Gregory Minor Hermann Joseph Muller...
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  • Lown is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Bernard Lown (1921–2021), American developer of the direct current defibrillator and the cardioverter...
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    treatment of myocardial infarction in the 1950s and his protégé Dr. Bernard Lown was an early innovator in the development of the coronary care unit in...
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    Hosaka Jackie Hudson Kate Hudson Ole Kopreitan David Lange Amory Lovins Bernard Lown Caroline Lucas Freda Meissner-Blau Gregory Minor Hermann Joseph Muller...
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  • liftoff, Moon April 08, 2024 TBA TBA TBA TBA 24 Maine DC Defibrillator Bernard Lown, defibrillator in operation May 16, 2024 TBA TBA TBA TBA 25 Missouri...
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  • and atmospheric chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1933) 16 February – Bernard Lown, Lithuanian-born American inventor and cardiologist (b. 1921) Category:Science...
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    Nuclear War (IPPNW). Two of the six founding members of the organization, Bernard Lown (M.D. 1945) and James E. Muller (M.D. 1969) were graduates of the Johns...
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  • executive (b. 1935) Arne Sorenson, 62, hotel executive (b. 1958) February 16 Bernard Lown, 99, Lithuanian-born inventor and cardiologist, developer of the defibrillator...
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    doubt that their ideas would ever become a clinical reality. In 1972 Bernard Lown, the inventor of the external defibrillator, and Paul Axelrod stated...
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    Hosaka Jackie Hudson Kate Hudson Ole Kopreitan David Lange Amory Lovins Bernard Lown Caroline Lucas Freda Meissner-Blau Gregory Minor Hermann Joseph Muller...
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  • founded in 1957 Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR)—founded by Bernard Lown in 1961. Council for a Livable World—founded in 1962 by physicist Leó...
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  • Hosaka Jackie Hudson Kate Hudson Ole Kopreitan David Lange Amory Lovins Bernard Lown Caroline Lucas Freda Meissner-Blau Gregory Minor Hermann Joseph Muller...
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    Award recipient Bernard Lown, co-founded the Nobel Peace Prize-winning group Physicians for Social Responsibility; founder of the Lown Cardiovascular Research...
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  • Sociological Association Douglas Hodgkin, political scientist and historian Bernard Lown, pioneering cardiologist credited with inventing the defibrillator; Nobel...
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    at his office where he was treated for the next four weeks by doctors Bernard Lown, Ira Weiss, and Larry Resnick. He made a full recovery from the heart...
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  • Drs. Bernard Lown, Victor W. Sidel, Sidney Alexander, H. Jack Geiger, Alexander Leaf, Charles Magraw, George Saxton, Robert Goldwyn, and Bernard Leon...
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    Named after Lewiston resident and Governor of Maine James B. Longley. Bernard Lown Peace Bridge: Connects Little Canada and New Auburn. Starts in Lewiston...
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    Goldstein (1985) William G. Kaelin Jr. (2019) Fritz Lipmann (1953) Bernard Lown (1985) George R. Minot (1934) James Muller (1985) Ferid Murad (1998)...
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  • Hosaka Jackie Hudson Kate Hudson Ole Kopreitan David Lange Amory Lovins Bernard Lown Caroline Lucas Freda Meissner-Blau Gregory Minor Hermann Joseph Muller...
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    White House Plumbers Hunt, Liddy, Eugenio Martínez, Felipe de Diego, and Bernard Barker (the latter three were, or had been, recruited CIA agents). The...
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  • hospital to another. The portability problem was solved by Bernard Lown (1921 – 2021). Lown devised a defibrillator that utilized direct current instead...
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    Hosaka Jackie Hudson Kate Hudson Ole Kopreitan David Lange Amory Lovins Bernard Lown Caroline Lucas Freda Meissner-Blau Gregory Minor Hermann Joseph Muller...
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    Hosaka Jackie Hudson Kate Hudson Ole Kopreitan David Lange Amory Lovins Bernard Lown Caroline Lucas Freda Meissner-Blau Gregory Minor Hermann Joseph Muller...
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    Hosaka Jackie Hudson Kate Hudson Ole Kopreitan David Lange Amory Lovins Bernard Lown Caroline Lucas Freda Meissner-Blau Gregory Minor Hermann Joseph Muller...
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