- October 6, 2022
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Economy
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…

