Earl Elmer Bakken was an American engineer, businessman and philanthropist of Dutch and Norwegian American ancestry. He founded Medtronic, where he developed the first external, battery-operated, transistorized, wearable artificial pacemaker in... Wikipedia
Born: January 10, 1924, Columbia Heights, MN
Died: October 21, 2018 (age 94 years), Hawaii County, HI
Education: University of Minnesota