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    Earl Elmer Bakken (January 10, 1924 – October 21, 2018) was an American engineer, inventor, businessman and philanthropist of Dutch and Norwegian American...
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    The Bakken Museum (/ˈbɑːkən/ BAH-kən) is situated in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. Established in 1975 by Earl Bakken, the co-founder of Medtronic...
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  • Earl Averill (1902–1983), professional baseball player Earl Edwin Austin, American criminal Earl Babbie (born 1938), American sociologist Earl Bakken...
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  • politician Brenda Bakken-Lackey, former Canadian provincial politician Christopher Bakken, American poet and professor Earl Bakken (1924–2018), American...
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    artificial heart valve implant in a human in 1958, and in the same year, Earl Bakken, co-founder of Medtronic, Inc., developed the first portable pacemaker...
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  • exporter Picker International. In 1967, he was hired away from Picker by Earl Bakken, CEO of Medtronic to become their first international sales administrator...
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    anyone and was about to auction off the collection in 1984 when Earl Bakken stepped in. Bakken, the founder of Medtronic and the inventor of the first wearable...
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  • Sergei Parajanov, Georgian-Armenian film director (d. 1990) January 10 Earl Bakken, American engineer and businessman, inventor of the modern Artificial...
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    rapid development of practical cardiac pacemaking. In 1958, engineer Earl Bakken of Minneapolis, Minnesota, produced the first wearable external pacemaker...
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  • portable, battery-powered pacemaker. It was invented at his behest by Earl Bakken, whose then-small company, Medtronic, designed and repaired electronics...
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