Lown, B.
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Name (Hebrew)
לאון, ברנרד
Name (Latin)
Lown, B.
Other forms of name
Latz, Boruch, 1921-2021
nne Lown, Bernard
Lown, Bernard, M.D
Date of birth
1921-06-07
Date of death
2021-02-16
Associated country
United States
Field of activity
Cardiology
Medical education--Social aspects
Nuclear warfare--Health aspects
Occupation
Cardiologists
College teachers
Physicians
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
Biographical or Historical Data
M.D.
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- Information from 678 converted Dec. 18, 2014(M.D.; Peter Bent Brigham Hospital)
- New York Times website, March 28, 2018(Bernard Lown; helped educate on the medical consequences of nuclear war)
- Washignton post WWW site, viewed Feb. 19, 2021(in obituary dated Feb. 17, 2021: Bernard Lown, an eminent cardiologist who forged a dual legacy in medicine and world affairs, pioneering lifesaving treatments for heart attacks and co-founding an international group of physicians that won a Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to end the nuclear arms race, died Feb. 16 at his home in Chestnut Hill, Mass. He was 99. In 1980, Dr. Lown and others founded the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW). Dr. Lown was born Boruch Latz on June 7, 1921, in Utena, Lithuania. He grew up in a middle-class family that operated a mill, among other business interests that they relinquished in 1935 when they fled to the United States. Bernard Lown--as he became known in his new American home--spent his adolescence in Maine. In addition to IPPNW, Dr. Lown helped found SatelLife, a nonprofit organization that seeks to use technology and communications to improve health care in poor countries)
- nuc90-17963: Peace, a dream unfolding, c1986(usage: Bernard Lown)
- His Current concepts in digitalis therapy, 1954.
- Sudden cardiac death, 1980:t.p. (B. Lown, M.D.) p. 6 (Bernard Lown)
- NLM files, 4/7/86(hdg.: Lown, B. (Bernard); usage: B. Lown, Bernard Lown)
- Prescription for survival, c2008:eCIP t.p. (Bernard Lown) data view (b. June 7, 1921) galley (cardiologist; prof., cardiology emeritus, Harvard School of Public Health; physician, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston; chairman and founder of the Lown Cardiovascular Research Foundation; activist, co-founded the Physicians for Social Responsibility, 1962; graduated summa cum laude, University of Maine; M.D. degree, Johns Hopkins Univ. School of Medicine)