| LC control no. | n 81118993 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Lown, B. (Bernard) |
| Variant(s) | Lown, Bernard Latz, Boruch, 1921-2021 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | Chestnut Hill (Mass.) |
| Birth date | 1921-06-07 |
| Death date | 2021-02-16 |
| Place of birth | Utena (Lithuania) |
| Place of death | Chestnut Hill (Mass.) |
| Field of activity | Cardiology Medical education--Social aspects Nuclear warfare--Health aspects |
| Affiliation | Physicians for Social Responsibility (U.S.) Harvard School of Public Health Brigham and Women's Hospital Peter Bent Brigham Hospital International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War SatelLife |
| Profession or occupation | Cardiologists College teachers Physicians |
| Found in | 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) 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) nuc90-17963: Peace, a dream unfolding, c1986 (usage: Bernard Lown) 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) |
| Associated language | eng |
| Invalid LCCN | n 90620368 |
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