Earl Bakken

Earl Bakken
waist-high portrait, wearing Hawaiian shirt, brown suitcoat and necklaces
Born
Earl Ethan Bakken

(1924-01-10)January 10, 1924
Columbia Heights, Minnesota, U.S.
DiedOctober 21, 2018(2018-10-21) (aged 94)
Kona District, Hawaii, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Minnesota
Occupationinventor
Known forfounding Medtronic, inventing the wearable portable pacemaker, founding Bakken Museum

Earl Ethan Bakken (January 10, 1924 – October 21, 2018) was an American engineer, businessman and philanthropist. He founded Medtronic, where he developed the first external, battery-operated, transistorized, wearable artificial pacemaker in 1957.[1]

Bakken retired from Medtronic in 1989 and moved to a 9-acre estate in the Kona District of Hawaii he calls Bakken Hale.[2]

Bakken died at his Hawaii home on October 21, 2018 at the age of 94.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Hebrew University of Jerusalem Institute of Chemistry: Earl E. Bakken Archived 2007-12-05 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ Mykleseth, Kathryn. "Supersize solar setup underway on Big Isle". Honolulu Star Advertiser. Oahu Publications d.b.a. Staradvertiser.com. Retrieved 21 June 2016.
  3. ↑ "Medtronic founder Earl Bakken Has Died at His Home In Hawaii". Archived from the original on 2018-10-24. Retrieved 2018-10-22.

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