Birth Name:

Bernard Lown

Male

Birth Date:

Tue, Jun 07, 1921

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Utena, Utena, Lithuania

Age:

103

Zodiac Sign:

Gemini

Astrology Data:

Sun

16°

Gem

8'

About Bernard Lown

Bernard Lown (June 7, 1921 – February 16, 2021) was a Lithuanian-American cardiologist and inventor. Lown was the original developer of the direct current defibrillator for cardiac resuscitation, and the cardioverter for correcting rapid disordered heart rhythms. He introduced a new use for the drug lidocaine to control heartbeat disturbances.

Link to Wikipedia biography

External Links:

• Official website

• Marcus, Adam (March 13, 2021). "Obituary: Bernard Lown". The Lancet. 397 (10278): 964. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00567-5.

• The Lown Cardiovascular Research Foundation

• A Heart Doctor With an Extra Big Heart

• Prescription for Survival -- interview from the public radio program "Living On Earth"

• The Lost Art of Healing -- interview from the public radio program "Humankind"

• Bernard Lown papers, 1933-2033 (inclusive, 1960-1995 (bulk), HMS c300. Harvard Medical Library, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Center for the History of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

• The Lown Blog about medical, social, and political issues (33 essays as of 12 April 2014).

• The Lown Conversation, an episodic intergenerational conversation dealing with the crisis in health care (30 essays as of 12 April 2014).

• Works by or about Bernard Lown at Internet Archive

Birth Chart and Planetary Positions of Bernard Lown

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Bernard Lown: Sun 16 Gemini, Moon 2 Cancer, Mercury 9 Cancer, Venus 3 Taurus, Mars 22 Gemini, Jupiter 10 Virgo, Saturn 18 Virgo, Uranus 9 Pisces, Neptune 11 Leo, Pluto 7 Cancer, Sun Conjunct Mars, Sun Semi Square Venus, Sun Square Saturn, Mercury Sextile Jupiter, Mercury Trine Uranus, Mercury Semi Sextile Neptune, Mercury Conjunct Pluto, Venus Sesquiquadrate Saturn, Mars Square Saturn, Jupiter Opposition Uranus, Jupiter Semi Sextile Neptune, Jupiter Sextile Pluto, Uranus Quincunx Neptune, Uranus Trine Pluto

Categories related to Bernard Lown: June 7 births, American Jews, Maine, Jewish inventors, Foreign Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health faculty, American cardiologists, People from Lewiston, 20th-century American inventors, 21st-century American inventors, University of Maine alumni, American anti-war activists, American anti–nuclear weapons activists, Recipients of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine alumni, Medical educators, 1921 births, Lithuanian emigrants to the United States, People from Utena, Lithuanian Jews, 2021 deaths

Photo attribution: Fredric Lown, Fredric Lown