Lewiston High grad who invented medical device may appear on US dollar coin

A Lewiston High School graduate may appear on the U.S. dollar coin.

Bernard Lown was a cardiologist and researcher who invented the direct-current defibrillator.

A proposed design for a $1 coin featuring Lewiston High School graduate Bernard Lown.

The Sun Journal reports that an advisory committee for the U.S. Mint recently endorsed a coin with Lown’s image and the medical device that’s saved countless lives for its American Innovations coin program.

Lown was born in Lithuania. He moved to Lewiston as a young teen and got his bachelor’s degree from…

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