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Dr. Bernard Lown
A Retrospective
June
7, 1921 - Born in
Utena, Lithuania
1942 - B.S., Summa Cum Laude - University of Maine
1950 - Research Fellow in Cardiology with Dr. Samuel A. Levine,
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
1950 - Demonstrated that diuretic induced potassium loss from the body
may predispose one to a life threatening disorder of heart rhythm
1955 - Assistant in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
1956 - Director, Samuel A. Levine Cardiovascular Research
Laboratory
1957 - Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Nutrition
at the Harvard Medical School of Public Health
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