| LC control no. | no2003047094 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Bakken, Earl E. (Earl Elmer), 1924-2018 |
| Located | Columbia Heights (Minn.) |
| Birth date | 1924-01-10 |
| Death date | 2018-10-21 |
| Place of birth | Minneapolis (Minn.) |
| Place of death | North Kona District (Hawaii) |
| Field of activity | Cardiac pacemakers Medical instruments and apparatus industry |
| Affiliation | Medtronic, Inc. |
| Profession or occupation | Electrical engineers Inventors Businesspeople |
| Found in | His Reflections on leadership, 1989: t.p. (Earl E. Bakken) MnHi files (hdg: Bakken, Earl Elmer, 1924- ) New York times WWW site, viewed Oct. 29, 2018 (in obituary published Oct. 25: Earl E. Bakken; b. Earl Elmer Bakken, Jan. 10, 1924, Minneapolis; grew up in Columbia Heights, Minn.; d. Sunday [Oct. 21, 2018], Hawaii, near Kiholo Bay in the North Kona District of the Big Island, aged 94; working in a Minneapolis garage, he invented the first wearable, battery-powered pacemaker and went on to help create the world's largest medical device company, Medtronic) |
| Associated language | eng |
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