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The news of Lown’s death at his home in Massachusetts was confirmed to the US media by his grandson, Ariel Lown Lweiton. The deceased suffered from pneumonia and heart failure.
B.Lown was born in June 1921 in Utena, his father was a local rabbi. The Lown family immigrated to the United States when Bernard was 14 years old, where he remained in Maine.
In Maine, B.Lown graduated from school and zoology at the University of Maine.
He worked in research his entire life and in 1962 he developed a new method to correct an abnormal heart rhythm called fibrillation.
Still, the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize was not awarded to Lown for his invention of the defibrillator.
Together with Soviet academic Yevgeny Chiazov, he withdrew his assessment of Doctors of the World to Prevent Nuclear War.
Chancellor Gabriel Landsberg expressed his condolences for Lown’s death Thursday night.
“I extend my condolences to his family and all his colleagues. We are proud that this exceptional personality from the medical world comes from Lithuania and has never forgotten his roots, he visited Lithuania several times, ”said G. Landsbergis sympathetically.
“I have no doubt that his vivid memory, his active professional and social activities for peace and nuclear disarmament are and will be a clear inspiration for many of us,” said the minister.
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